Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many preseason seers to hang on to their national championship, Louisiana State University's Tigers fumed for the first half as Rice's quick-kicks rocked them back on their heels; but they came back in the second half with sturdy, sprinting All-America Halfback Billy Cannon leading...
...series of mishaps threatened to make the July 9 opening impossible. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers and stake-drivers were still working. But at 8 o'clock Governor Furcolo was able to officiate at the impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony, backed by the firing of cannon and the blaring of medieval trumpets...
Political Assets. In Frankfort, Ky., after winning the Republican primary for state attorney general, Samuel S. Cannon reported his campaign costs: $2 for a photograph, 50? for stamps...
Jimmy Hoffa himself came through swimmingly. At a dinner for his 400 lobbyists, he promised to "elect" a Congress that would dance to Teamster pipes. When he heard this, Missouri's Democrat Clarence Cannon, who had pledged his vote to Sam Rayburn, announced that he would have to vote for Landrum-Griffin...
...presents a parade of stars-from a plumper Peter Lorre as a white-face clown to Mrs. Bing Crosby on a flying trapeze-and backs them up with everything from lion tamers and wire walkers to the Ronnie Lewis Trio, the Flying Alexanders, and Hugo Zacchini. the Human Cannon Ball. But as Ringmaster Vincent Price calls off act after act, The Big Circus often looks like a gaudily colored CinemaScope production of the Ed Sullivan Show...