Word: volleying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the election of his successor less than three weeks away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...
Nothing outside of aimless midfield volley went on during the second quarter, but at 6:45 of the third period Goldstein gave Harvard a 3 to 0 lead wish a hard shot from 20 feet out. His pass came from inside right Jon Spivak...
...least a dozen of these items all by himself, firing two through a door into the back of his chief officer, and using three more to shoot down another lieutenant who tries to give himself up. The remainder go off at various cops, except for a volley of three which Cagney, calmly munching a sandwich, pumps into a friend who is hiding in the trunk compartment...
...head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July by stepping out from behind a rock on a Calaveras County road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half a dozen gun barrels covering him, eagerly threw down the green, ironbound Wells Fargo treasure chest. Next day an investigating party discovered that the "guns" Driver Hodges had seen among the rocks were only...
...crowd cornered two terror-stricken Negro boys against a fence. Under a volley of fists, clubs and stones, the boys went down-but not before one of them had whipped out a knife and stabbed one of his attackers. In a surge of fury, the nearest whites kicked and pummeled the two prostrate bodies, turned angrily on rescuing police with shouts of "nigger-lover...