The amygdala, which is central to violence, central to fear, initiates volleys of cascades that produce pulling of a trigger.

I'm talking about volleys and bicycles, how often does that happen in the champions?

(Oh, did I forget to mention that those Mescaleros have a nasty habit of tying their prisoners to ant hills?) "Escape" boasts a very tough-talking script, with glints of humor coming from the bickerings between (those great character actors) Williams Demarest and Campbell, and its final third is remarkably suspenseful, as Roper, Carla and the escaped rebs are laid siege in a ditch, while the Mescaleros pick them off with rifle shot and lob volleys of arrows into their midst.

When India and Pakistan exchanged volleys of nuclear tests in May of 1998, Western observers suggested that nuclear standoff between the two countries would have a sobering influence, as it allegedly did upon the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War.

One evening it had rained so much that they had gone back again without being able to say anything, and the king's soldiers came up and it finished with volleys of musketry.

When we had fired a second volley of our fusees, we thought they stopped a little, and I hoped they would have gone off, but it was but a moment, for others came forward again; so we fired two volleys of our pistols; and I believe in these four firings we had killed seventeen or eighteen of them, and lamed twice as many, yet they came on again.

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