Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forrest grew up in a big, comfortable Victorian house in Melrose, outside Boston. He built model ships, and with his pals re-enacted the charge of San Juan Hill in the wood behind the house, using cordwood for cannon...
...ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave her a look of aged help lessness, an impression which was contradicted by the energetic forward thrust...
...Cannon Mountain--None to 6, less than 1 frozen granular. Partly cloudy. No skiing...
Shepard started about as mush from scratch as a coach can start. He inherited an 18 game losing streak from his predecessor, Bill Barclay, minus Barclay's beat playmaker, Chip Cannon, and best individual player. Walt McCurdy. He also accumulated a bunch of sophomores, none of whom ran much over five-feet eight. Shepard put on a sweatshirt and started trying to discover if he had a team...
...Allied bombs during World War II); after long illness; in Salzburg, Austria. Gustav Halbach, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, changed his name when he married Bertha Krupp, heiress to the huge Ruhr steel and ammunition works. In World War I he built the famed long-range German cannon that bombarded Paris (the Allies called it "Big Bertha" after his wife). An early supporter of Hitler, he was indicted as a top war criminal, escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile...