Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opponents of Dixon-Yates were gleeful. Said Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, Appropriations chairman: "This kills the Dixon-Yates deal because it doesn't give them an outlet for their power...
...Named because its original property at 14th and G Streets was given by one Henry Foxall in gratitude to God for the preservation of his cannon foundry from the British when they invaded Washington...
...Bobtailed Cruiser." At the commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...been for the miniature cannon used to boom greetings to passing craft from her family's yacht, Carmelite Janvier might have lived out her days as a typical New Orleans socialite. Her sisters all made their marks as debutantes, and one was selected to be queen of carnival. But one day, when nine-year-old Carmelite was playing on board, the cannon accidentally went off. It destroyed one eye and nearly blinded the other. It also left Carmelite Janvier disfigured for life...
After the cadets came the steel-helmeted motorized infantry in green armored cars, tanks with Tommy gunners at the ready, air-force officers in new dark blue uniforms, and then the day's showpiece: a huge, gleaming cannon, mounted on a rubber-tired platform, thought by some military observers to be an atomic weapon (one of the "daring discoveries" of Soviet science, said Radio Moscow...