Word: volleys
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...National Guardsmen, all enlisted men. They were members of the units that fired into the crowd of about 500 students, including some rock throwers, who demonstrated on the Ohio university campus against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on that bloody afternoon of May 4,1970. When the 13-second volley was over, four students lay dead and nine others wounded...
...cops-and he walked out with his man. But his record is not without blemish: he was overall commander during the brutal police clashes with demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic Convention, when his men got out of control. Rochford was also in charge of the police who fired a volley of shots-wounding one youth-in a riot at a 1970 rock festival in Grant Park...
...virtually unnoticed by the public?until last summer. At that time, Schlesinger disclosed that the U.S. missile force was being retriggered to give the U.S. a "counterforce" capability; i.e., the means to strike?if desired?only at Soviet military forces and installations rather than let loose a wholesale volley that would also destroy population centers...
...latest serious violation involved U.S. Captain Richard Rees, 32, leader of a team searching for American dead around a village twelve miles southwest of Saigon. When Rees jumped from his helicopter on landing, a volley of B40 rockets and machine-gun fire suddenly ripped into one of the team's three craft, setting it afire. Rees raised his hands in surrender, but he was promptly shot dead by the Viet Cong...
...Even a swift shuffle through it will make them want to grab the nearest racket and rush to the court. It is the pictures that do it. Whether they show Rod Laver smashing a serve, Stan Smith straining for a backhand drive, or Billie Jean King pulverizing a forehand volley, the photographs communicate the power, grace and sheer ferocity of top-level tennis, in kinetic color and black and white. The supporting text is heavy with cliches (legends are always "untarnished") as it sketchily covers the history, the famous matches and shotmakers of the game. No matter. Most tennis fans...