Word: cannon
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...left out of the conversation, Stewart toyed with the repetitive and infectious grooves of “Loose Cannon,” allowing the audience to catch a true glimpse of his virtuosity. He constructed polyrhythmic extrapolations onto the initial simple patterns, building on the rhythm and blues flavored hooks and then subsiding into sparse, off-putting snare shots as he tried to push Blake’s more cool and subdued solo into another, more frenzied direction. Blake’s resistance to percussive prodding created a palpably apparent tension, until Stewart resolved the matter, asserting his authority...
...clear sky, some 30 km off Hainan's east coast. At about 8:40 a.m., two Chinese fighters suddenly appeared. The aircraft were later identified as Lavochkin LA-7s, Soviet-built prop-driven fighters. For no apparent reason, the planes opened machine-gun and cannon fire. The DC-4's captain Philip Blown tried evasive action, hurling the DC-4 into a steep dive. But the airliner kept taking hits. Syd's Pirates: A Story of an Airline (Durnmount, 1983), by retired Cathay senior captain Charles "Chic" Eather, documents the attack. Eather, now 81 and living on Australia's Gold...
...think your free-throw troubles are because Dyan Cannon is in your line of vision...
...protests were muffled when USA Today reported on December 8 that Palestinian women from Tulkarm were outraged that their children were being picked up after school and brought into battle zones, and had written a protest letter to Arafat demanding that the Palestinian Authority "stop using our children as cannon fodder...
Mathias took the puck at the blue-line and fired a cannon shot that Ruddock apparently never saw. The puck went past Ruddock and into the net to tie the game...