Word: cannon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overzealous effort to attract money to Harvard's youngest graduate school. Brought to light last November by a proposal to bestow University Officer status on an oil-rich Texas couple in return for a $500,000 gift, the Kennedy School's fundraising tactics had made the School a "loose cannon," in the words of a Harvard official...
Police sprayed the seated protesters with water cannon but they stayed in place and recited The Lord's Prayer as they were put into police vehicles. Journalists also were detained...
Char Joslin: The freshman sensation has become a sophomore sensation. She leads the team in goals scored, and is a threat to connect from anywhere. She can deke, fire a wrist shot in traffic or load up her famous cannon. Princeton keyed on her constantly last week but it didn't work--she got two third-period goals...
Quote of the Week: "Basically, we nixed them. It was a gunfight and we brought a cannon."--Harvard squash player Jim Masland, referring to Seth Handy's 3-2 comeback over his Franklin & Marshall counterpart which gave the racquetmen a 5-4 victory...
...Basically, we nixed them," Masland said. "It was like a gun fight and we brought a cannon [Handy...