Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
...different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception of one single-stage, 70-ft. monster that looked like an overgrown German V2. The big new T-54 tanks had already been seen in action in Budapest, and the only noteworthy artillery pieces were two huge cannon (12-16 in. bore) presumably capable of firing nuclear shells. "We saw nothing that worries us," said one Western military attaché. "It's what we haven't seen that does...
...although that unsocialist romantic, Tchaikovsky, had been capable of similar stuff in his heavy-ordnance 1812 Overture). Last week's audience could almost see flashes of fire and smell gun smoke as the bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon fire. The Moscow audience applauded the symphony warmly, but not with unusual enthusiasm. Wearing a dark, double-breasted suit, Composer Shostakovich walked up to the stage and took a breathless, jerky bow. Correspondents noted that he was fighting a nervous...
...mail-order houses and retailers everywhere happily hurled themselves into space. Advertising a $5.89 telescope in its new winter catalogue. Montgomery Ward urged: "Be an earth satellite observer." Spiegel's rocketed away with a "Super Satellite Station" for $3.98. Sears, Roebuck had a $6.37 "Radar Rocket Cannon,'' along with dozens of other fearsome armaments, and practically everyone wanted Tigrett Industries' $20 "Golden Sonic,'' a flying rocket ship powered only by a high-pitched whistle...
...Imam's recruits had been trained for seven months near Dammam in Saudi Arabia. British officers on the spot identified captured rebel grenades as U.S.-made, implied strongly that they, like the recruits, came from Saudi Arabia. Also picked up in the rubble: two British naval cannon dated 1646. The U.S.-made grenades, along with the rebel prisoners' admission that they were trained in Saudi Arabia, may be used to counter Arab charges of "aggression" by Britain if the Arabs try to put the issue on the U.N.'s agenda...