They shook hands and had a rapid-fire exchange that probably only they could understand, joked about something and wished each other luck.

Locked in the classic scrappers' embrace, the two players commenced a rapid-fire exchange of blows, hammering away with furious abandon, turning flesh into pulp.

E-mail shatters time and distance barriers, allowing rapid-fire exchanges of information among managers.

The group finishes with a rapid-fire exchange of phrases that seem to heat the very air in the club.

In twelve minutes of rapid-fire exchanges, the Talents arrived at a grim but workable course of action.

The boy said something to her; he swung the burlap sack over his shoulder, and after a rapid-fire exchange of Spanish he ran off toward the river.

The two men embraced and lapsed into a rapid-fire exchange unintelligible to anyone who had not spent decades in jazz haunts.

There are proposals and attacks, cross-examinations and rebuttals, all conducted in intense, rapid-fire exchanges that can leave observers gasping for air.

There was a rapid-fire exchange of glances among the three cops, a vein of thin amusement.

There are slow stretches here; the signing simply can't keep pace with Mr. Durang's more rapid-fire exchanges.