Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Division Down. During the period when the pundits could see nothing in their tea leaves except intercontinental bombers, the Army plugged hard for its giant 280-mm. atomic cannon, with its 20-mile range. Now, as the Joint Chiefs accept the possibility of a stalemate in strategic airpower and the need for powerful battle forces (TIME, Jan. 10), the Army also has in sight atomic shells for its conventional big artillery pieces, 20 howitzers, rocket launchers and atomic heads for its guided missiles...
...Mortars started up again, but the Binh Xuyen fire was inaccurate. Nationalist reinforcements-a battalion of paratroops-moved expertly, strung out in single files along the boulevard, using the picturesque trees for cover. Scout cars zigzagged towards Binh Xuyen bunkers, slamming at them with 37-mm. cannon fire. Sirens howled. Telephones jangled. A baby wailed. A scout car was hit, its machine gunner twisted dead out of the hatch, and it came screaming back out of the battle in reverse. Yet for all the commotion and concussion, the young Vietnamese Nationalists were calm. Just as one terrorist shell exploded...
...form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of Chitor, the Rajputs held out against the invading Moguls. The Rajputs wore armor and fought with spears; the Moguls used cannon. In the last decisive engagement, a lucky Mogul shot killed the Rajput chieftain Jaimal, and the garrison, losing hope, performed the dreaded rite of jauhar...
...often made enemies, but he came as close as any man since Booker T. Washington to being a leader of his chosen people. He willingly bucked public opinion, Negro and white, when he thought he was right. After his first wife divorced him, in 1949, White married Poppy Cannon, a white woman who was born in South Africa. He was widely criticized, and the NAACP decided to keep him as secretary only after a 3½hour debate, by a vote...
...varsity ski team turned in its strongest showing of the season Saturday afternoon at Cannon Mountain as it finished fifth out of 17 teams in the Lynn Sno-Chasers Team Downhill...