Word: volleys
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...Deacons turn in their usual spring performance, Winthrop, which has never won the Straus Trophy, will never stand a chance: In the past four spring seasons, Kirkland has come from behind in the point totals to win the championship. This year, Deacon athletes have won only one title, in volley ball, but have capitalized on consistently high finishes in every other sport...
...bomb during the Korean fighting. Taking dead aim at the general, whom he removed from his Korean-war command in 1951, Truman replied: "Yes, MacArthur wanted to do that ... He wanted to bomb China and Eastern Russia and everything else." Last week came a counter-volley from MacArthur. "Completely false [and] fantastic." said he. "Atom bombing in the Korean war was never discussed either by my headquarters or in any communication to or from Washington." Then, insisting that he re-entered "this controversial dispute . . . only to prevent a complete prevarication of history," MacArthur restated his old case against ex-Commander...
...mobilized the able-bodied men of Plaquemines, including the American Legion, set up a flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...
...because he was in a Polish jail in 1937 when Stalin liquidated the rest of Poland's Communist leadership, Gomulka is an irascible, puritanical man who hates conviviality and chitchat; he has strictly forbidden his aides to publicize his private life-which is largely given over to swimming, volley ball and his Russian-Jewish wife Zofja. Like Hungary's Kadar, Gomulka was arrested in 1951 for Titoism, but unlike Kadar he refused to crack despite three years' confinement. Reinstated as First Party Secretary in Poland's near revolution in 1956, he defied Khrushchev's threat...
Actions & Gestures. Like a lazy mocking mirror of human folly flow the canals of Venice. Novelist Pasinetti tellingly evokes "the bride of the sea," with its funereal gondolas, its swish of steps and voices and waves on marble landings, its wheeling pigeons under a volley of church bells. Pasinetti was born in his setting, is now a professor of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote his novel in Italian and then translated it into English on a tape recorder, a method that gives the book a convincing, though sometimes too pronounced, foreign accent...