Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week, decided that the defense of Europe must henceforth be based on nuclear weapons. It is no longer enough, they warned, for Europe to rely on the deterrent nuclear power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. Now that atomic weapons are entering the tactical field (atomic cannon, atomic guided missiles, Belgians, Danes, Turks -all the armies and peoples of Western Europe-must reshape their defenses and readjust their prejudices to the dictates of nuclear warfare...
...Territorial waters two or three decades ago were almost universally recognized as ending three nautical miles out, based on a doctrine, centuries old, that such was the maximum distance a shore-based cannon shot would carry and therefore the greatest enforceable limit. Now each nation makes its own rule...
...Aime. In Barcelona, Spain, friends of Circus Acrobat Luis Raluys. who for ten years had been fired from a cannon by his wife, made public his explanation for his retirement: "Her aim has gotten so bad I've been in the hospital 17 times. The last time she fired me I landed in the lions' cage. Ive had enough...
...University ski team will compete in the Franconia Ski Club's annual preseason cross country and giant slalom races on Cannon Mountain tomorrow and Sunday. These will be the first ski competitions in the East this winter...
Franconia Cannon 4-25, 8 powder, Light snow. Fair to poor...