Word: volleys
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...unofficial No. 2 are technically almost twins. Both hit with apparently effortless length and accuracy, forehand and backhand; both have a deadly overhead, a stinging service. Both are stylists whose repertory takes in all the shots that tennis knows. All-court players, they can chop, drop-shot, lob or volley with equal fluency. But no two characters could be so antipodal as 22-year-old Donald Budge and 28-year-old Gottfried von Cramm...
...tribute to Amelia Earhart; by Frank, "The Slavery Question and How It Changed the United States"; by Grand-editor Louis, editorials. Excerpts: "The modern child grows up with guns surrounding him. Guns to the right of him, guns to the left of him, guns in front of him, volley and thunder. This is one of the main reasons of wars...
...open the plant, was on the long distance telephone urging the police and pickets not to resort to violence. The police chief gave the pickets two minutes to get out and marched back to his troops. The two minutes was stretched to two hours before the police fired a volley of tear gas shells. This had no effect except that the pickets brandished clubs in defiance. In good order the police and deputies then marched up six abreast, delivered a well-aimed volley of vomiting gas grenades before which the pickets fled...
...crowd of spectators cheered lustily. The non-strikers in their cars rattled toward the mill. The pickets rallied to shower them with rocks, but another volley of grenades put them finally to rout, sent them fleeing down the road and across an orchard, many of them abandoning their cars. Members of the crowd joined in the chase and beat up several pickets whom they caught. Several others were rescued and released by the well-organized deputies. Taken into "protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief...
...cool night of Sept. 14 that year Headmaster Speer was alone in his study reading, when someone crept up to the window, fired a murderous volley of buck shot into him, disappeared. Self-possessed Dean Elder became one of the most interesting to press and public of the 63 witnesses who testified at the Speer in quest. Mysterious it was too that Mr. Speer's two big dogs had not barked, as they presumably would have if an un known intruder had made his way through the school's heavily wooded grounds. Because the villain of The Public...