Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join the professor in the corn wagon...
...whose portrait now hangs at the left of the dining hall entrance. With his gift of $150,000 the "experiment in democracy," as he called it, went up in a year. Completed in 1902, the building was garnished with momentous of the recent Spanish war, including a "rapid-firing" cannon from the cruiser Harvard. This now stands in the basement, aimed threateningly at the entrance to the office of Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles...
...midstream, during the Revolutionary War days, the University admonished students against throwing cannon-balls from the windows of Hollis Hall at passing British soldiers...
...fourth generation which forged weapons, I should like to add one thing. Never in my parents' home . . . did I hear one word or experience one act which welcomed or promoted any war at any place or at any time. The symbol of our house does not depict a cannon, but three interlocked wheels, emblem of peaceful trade...
...official 715 m.p.h., only a shade below the speed of sound. Pilot Derry in his DH-110, which was later to crash, zoomed to 17,000 ft. in a vertical, barrel-rolling climb. All three planes dived at the field, bombarding the stands with shock waves that sounded like cannon fire...