Word: volleys
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...ever seen, but violence did not stop with the Deputies. As soon as the story leaked out, Communists and Hitlerites began punching each others' noses all over Germany. In Hamburg a mob of Communists swept down the street shouting "Hunger, Hunger!" breaking into a delicatessen store. A volley of police bullets stopped them. In Berlin a group of Hitlerites were trapped by a surly crowd in a railway tunnel, had to be rescued by police. In Cologne and at Remscheid Communist crowds did not wait to be charged, attacked the police first. At Dusseldorf the police were bombarded with...
...Russian Revolution." Past an honor guard of Red cavalrymen with drawn sabres the professor's cremated ashes were borne to a niche cut in the Kremlin wall behind Lenin's Tomb, popped in and covered with a bronze tablet while Red soldiers fired a three-volley salute...
...teams staging one five man melee after another. Clark tallied from such a muddle in front of the Crimson goal in the closing seconds of the chukker. Harvard scored on Luton's close range drive in the next period, but the fourth chukker saw it powerless before a volley of fast drives from Clark and his teammates. Captain Roland Mangini of the Cavalry was the star of this phase of the game, netting two quick goals. Cooke's tally in the last stanza and a steaming shot for goal by Clark ended the game...
About dawn the landlady jumped up in bed as a volley of shots rattled the window panes. Feet thudded down the stairway. A voice cried: "Hell, that's enough -come on." The front door slammed. From a window the landlady saw two men disappear inside a maroon sedan, watched ihe car slip away in the half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood...
...keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled its victims with a roaring volley which awakened the sleeping town...