Word: cannon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration plans to lavish on American industry between now and 1987. In addition to at least 130 new combat and support vessels for the Navy, the Administration's shopping list calls for more than 3,900 jet fighters, bombers and transport aircraft, 8,880 tanks and cannon-carrying troop transports and, during the next decade, some 14,000 strategic and tactical bombs and missiles for the nation's nuclear arsenal...
...America to the atrocities going on down South The same holds true in Vietnam One wonders whether we as a nation would ever have known, or even bothered to find out, what our government was up to in Southeast Asia if our own sons had not been used as cannon fodder Perhaps the same will hold true for the present day crises in which the government seems determined to embroil...
...grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money ripped from the pockets of the seven dead miners below...
...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...
...sophomores began to band together and celebrate in their newly excited rebelliousness. They burned bonfires at midnight in the Yard. A student was suspended for nine months after he dropped a large cannon ball, with an insulting note to his tutor attached, from the fourth floor of Stoughton. In early November, a tutor, attempting to calm the excitement of the vandals, was greeted by a bucket of ink and water dropped over his head. One night later, a large group of students "met at the 'sign of the golden eagle' on the common at midnight, formed themselves into separate parties...