Warm-ups are longer and more ritualized, with a sequence of volleys and serves.

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Much of this comes in the language of the game, in the syntax of grips and spins, and in the vocabulary of volleys and lobs.

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The racket of helicopter blades and volleys of gunfire startled Bulo Marer town residents out of their sleep Friday night, when French paratroopers descended on the camp.

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Sidney Govou thumped a couple of early volleys past the upright for the hosts while Gonzalo Higuain just failed to control in the box for Real after an excellent move.

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Touching up the landscape, staffing it with a grinning cast of extras in Confederate uniform and letting off daily volleys of thunderflashes would be crude and misleading, said a crew of historians and culture vultures: the empty fields, with their slight bumps and dips, speak more tellingly of the past than models.

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Both direct volleys of abuse at Mr Bush.

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Holbrooke's mission is in response to a series of rapid-fire Kremlin volleys begun by President Boris Yeltsin last week.

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William Strong and his wife, Virginia, were buried here amid rifle volleys and a plaintive playing of taps.

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Djokovic still looked the sharper, quicker player at the start of the second set, and had Nadal running around the court as he teased him with drop shots, volleys and lobs.

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