Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs, armed with polished muzzle loaders and supported by cavalry and authentic 19th century cannon, stood by for four days as the October 1955 rains pelted them. Cost of the washout: $3,000. Back in their Manhattan workshop, the planners decided they could get big scope by closing down to the suggestion of epic Greek tragedy in the plight of Lee at Seminary Ridge...
...While the cannon boomed, and Del Sesto supporters angrily stormed out of the Statehouse growling "robbery" and "dictatorship," smiling Denny Roberts took his oath, in his own private office, surrounded by cops, state troopers, newsmen and henchmen. There was no inaugural address-just a Roberts' statement justifying the necessity of court action to resolve a "grave constitutional issue...
...Hampshire resorts, Franconia's Cannon Mt. was classified as fair to good on the upper trails and excellent on the slope. Intervale, Laconia's Belknap Mts., Mt. Sunapee, and North Conway's Mt. Cranmore were all termed excellent...
Artist Ben Shahn, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, did his best to ring the death knell last night on Clive Bell's influential critical cannon that representation is unimportant in painting...
...British Venoms from Cyprus were raking nine airfields, including three in the canal zone, with cannon fire and delayed action bombs. The pilots said they destroyed at least 14 planes on the ground, including hangars, the Associated Press reported...