Word: volleyings
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...bubble over its rooftop courts for three years, but it is now so dirty that it no longer lets in much light. There are air-pressure problems with some bubbles−now and then a tennis player will complain of popping ears. Acoustics are often eccentric. A hard-hit volley, for example, sometimes will sound like a battery of French 75s. Heating−or cooling−;the bubbles is difficult. The sun has a way of turning the structures into hothouses, while the cold winds of winter can overwhelm heating systems...
...Ohio National Guardsmen who suddenly wheeled and fired into a crowd at Kent State University last May apparently fabricated their story of imminent danger after their volley killed four students. That damning statement, contained in a Justice Department summary of an exhaustive FBI investigation and read oh the Senate floor by Ohio Senator Stephen Young, directly contradicted the special state-appointed local grand jury that only three weeks ago completely exonerated the Guardsmen...
They come at you in a burst, a volley. The moment you dodge the first, you've got to start thinking about the second. And the third. And the fourth. It's like an obstacle course. You're evading all the time. The whole thing is over in about two minutes. But into those two minutes you seem to compress your whole life...
...occupied an adjacent bungalow that the police had built as their local headquarters. The crowd wanted it used as a clinic instead, and shouted: "Policlinica si, carabinero no" (Hospital yes, police no). Four hours later, the police returned with reinforcements, and after a barrage of tear gas and a volley of shots recaptured their headquarters. But they refused to pursue their challengers into the commune, even though at least six of its members had been accused of holding up banks. Toro him self, charged with harboring bank robbers, had already gone into hiding...
...fire hoses as a next step, if needed. Tear gas, now widely used as almost the first step by many agencies, is considered a fourth-level tactic by the Army. After that comes the use of fire by selected marksmen, shooting at well-defined targets, and finally volley fire. Even then, such fire should be aimed low to wound, rather than to kill...