Word: volleyings
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...awkward postures of Death, one stands out as the most ghastly yet published in any war book. It is labeled an execution in Kazan. Backed against the rough-hewn wall of a log cabin eleven men, most in underclothes, barefoot, one half-naked, are standing in the snow. The volley (whose echo Authoress Yurlova compares to "an immensely swift flight of pigeons across the yard") has just crashed. The camera's shutter has caught the eleven bullet-riddled victims in the act of falling. One is arched up, head back, on tiptoe. One, with a long beard, has turned...
...secretaries clucked their tongues at the wreaths of mist which hung about their bareheaded chief as he swung up a ramp to the House wing. On the arm of his son James he passed into the well of the House and after a round of applause and a volley of cheers, began to deliver his message to the first and only regular session of the 73rd Congress...
...Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock, in the Athletic Building, and on Tuesdays and Fridays at 12 o'clock, at Hemenway, classes are being conducted for the faculty. The program includes conditioning exercises, use of the medicine ball, and volley ball contests...
...with this desperado. The courtroom bristled with armed men. Every spectator, every lawyer was searched before entering. Even the judge had a bodyguard. It was Harvey J. Bailey who had engineered the Memorial Day break from the Kansas State Penitentiary. It was allegedly Harvey J. Bailey who poured a volley of machine gun bullets into four peace officers and their prisoner in front of Kansas City's Union Station last June. It was Harvey J. Bailey who was captured in his sleep, pistols and machine guns by his side, at the Shannon farm shortly after Urschel's release...
...sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head-on toward it was the taxi. The sedan driver headed straight for the cab, swerved clear just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went a volley. Careening into a wooded lane, the sedan bounced crazily over bumps and ruts, crashed into an elm. The two men leaped out, ran in opposite directions. One peeled off his hat & coat, dropped them. By the time their pursuers reached the spot, both had escaped. Few hours later a farmer explained...