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Word: cannoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a re-match, it can be seen, would offer a better comparison of the merits of the three teams than did the original series and, with such a galaxy of stars, would certainly be popular with the loyal supporters of the teams. Walter F. Cannon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE-WAY RUN-OFF | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...which forbids foreigners to contribute to election campaigns. U.S. business interests in the islands anted up some $250.000 at a time when Magsaysay's Nationalist Party was seriously short of funds. On election day. 25 U.S. officers were sprinkled around polling areas by Major General Robert M. Cannon to ''observe" units of the Filipino army on election day. and a platoon of U.S. foreign correspondents, dispersed through the islands, helped protect Filipinos against monkey business at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The People's Choice | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...five minutes past 9 one morning last week, in the capital city of Ankara, a bugler blew a blast, and all over the nation's 296,000 square miles, 21 million Turks stood motionless for five minutes. Only the delayed shriek of jet formations broke the silence. Then cannon began to boom at five-minute intervals as Kemal Ataturk, the Father of the Turks-dead 15 years this day-began his last voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Burial of Ataturk | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...CANNON big enough to knock down heavily armored enemy planes may soon replace the machine guns on U.S. Air Force jet fighters. The Air Force has given Buffalo Arms, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. the first contract ($4,000,000) for a new fast-firing, 30-mm. aircraft cannon whose projectile is nearly three times bigger than that now used in the .50-cal. machine guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Crimson slipped and slid to a 2 to 1 triumph over the Engineers in mud which made a cannon ball out of the soccer ball and covered the players from head to foot by the time of the final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Booters Defeat M.I.T. 2-1 | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

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