Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SALESMEN for Chicago's Hubbell Metals Inc. sometimes answer the telephone and hear a cannon go off. It is their president's way of saluting them for making a particularly good sale, urging them on to greater success. Other firms are giving the kids whistles and the wives signs intended to get Pop out to sell, sell, sell. The story of the wonderful (and woeful) things that are happening to salesmen as businessmen attack the recession is told in BUSINESS, Spur for the Front Lines...
Family Party. Resplendent in white from the peak of his fedora to the toes of his buckskin shoes, Marshal Tito was at dockside to pump Colonel Nasser's hand. Handsome Mme. Tito, buxom in blue silk, embraced Nasser's wife. Bands and cannon boomed. Then, past an honor guard on a street festooned with flowers and the flags of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic, the two Presidents rode in an open Rolls-Royce, followed by their wives in a yellow Cadillac convertible, to the presidential guest house, the cliffside Villa...
Impulsively he let five of them go, then three, and early this week five more. He fed and housed the others well, and drafted an apology to their "parents, wives and sweethearts." The kidnaped men were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...
...call on the Democratic party line brought Speaker Sam Rayburn out fast. Mr. Sam hurriedly rounded up the Democrats. He even took to the well of the House to enjoin one Democrat from going over to the G.O.P. side, exchanging finger-waggling arguments with Missouri's Democratic Clarence Cannon, a longtime rival of Carl Vinson's, who was voting with the Republicans on one amendment...
...discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should have swept away four or five hundred with cannon, and the others would still be running...