Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the nation's sportswriters, before the bout, had called the fight an obvious mismatch. New York Post Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon put part of the blame on the NBC network: "The fight racket is now television's responsibility. It rs no longer an arena sport but a family divertissement. The networks should decide what their cameras gaze upon...
...years later, suspected of spying for the British, he deserted his wife and daughter and fled to London. Knighted for his service to King George III, he soon became famed as a scientific busybody. Most of his experiments in those days dealt with naval cannon (recoil and the velocity of missiles). After the Revolution, Sir Benjamin went to work for the Elector of Bavaria. In short order, he became Minister of War, Minister of Police, Major General, Chamberlain of the Court and State Councilor. In his spare time, he invented a laborsaving kitchen range and organized a workhouse for Munich...
...Cannon & Coffee. His most important experiment: working with a cannon-boring machine, he established the equivalence of heat and work, demolishing the long-accepted "caloric" theory. In verbose essays, Rumford also discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...
...traveled on a 720-ton ex-Italian minelayer, now the Yugoslav training ship Galeb (Seagull). The royal welcome began in the Sicilian Channel, where the British destroyers Chieftain and Chevron steamed up to convoy the dictator. At Gibraltar three more British destroyers and three aircraft carriers joined up, cannon booming, and 60 planes roared past in a "flyover" (three crashed, killing four officers...
...mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...