Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a cannon rolling loose on the deck of a frigate, Marlon Brando crashes through "Streetcar," malicious and violent. Screeching like a cat, walloping tables and women, peeling shirts off his sweaty muscles and tossing away his lines in a punchy, thick-lipped Polish accent, Brando fixes the attention of camera and audience until the sound of his voice seems a separate presence on the screen...
...almost up to date. So is his odometer, a device to measure distances by counting the turns of a wheel. His mechanical jack looks as if it had been designed for changing tires on a modern automobile. If Leonardo had had a gasoline engine, his tank (with breech-loading cannon and independent spiked wheels) might have been effective during World...
Ouimet smacked the ball crisply, 170 yards straight down the fairway, and an antique cannon beside the tee boomed a salute. It was the traditional "driving in" ceremony, performed each year-but not always so well-by the elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient, golf's oldest and holiest shrine. Francis Ouimet, onetime caddy from the wrong side of Boston's tracks, was the first American ever elected captain...
Missouri's Clarence Cannon, House appropriations czar, greeted the request with a hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...
...Delegate Cavendish Cannon began by proposing English, as well as French and Russian, as an official conference language. Vishinsky remarked that most of the participants "loved and understood the Russian language," and by a simple majority vote of his stooges, that was that. Then Vishinsky offered a treaty which assured Russian control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm. The three Western powers protested. Vishinsky snapped: "The door was open for you to come in; the same door is open...