Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannon. On feast days, the Spilambertians brought the cannon to the border of the villages, shot it off in the direction of San Cesario. At festivals, San Cesarians shouted, "Give us back our cannon, swindlers," and the Spilambertians replied, "Come and get it, cowards...
...Cesario one who could take the challenge. Young Gustavo Sola, a partisan hero of World War II, was known as "Il Corsaro" (the pirate). When the war was over, the 23-year-old Corsaro went with two friends to Spilamberto's priest, who had charge of the cannon, and persuaded him to yield the trophy in exchange for a signed receipt. Detouring en route so the countryside might see, Il Corsaro trundled the cannon home in a handcart, and received a hero's welcome: a supper of lasagna, tortellini, young kid, pork and chicken, topped...
Spilamberto's priest, Don Romeo Spatini, went to court, asking return of the cannon plus damages for the splitting of the breech. He brandished the receipt, but Il Corsaro slyly pointed out that he had not specified when he would return the cannon. He hid the cannon at a dairy farm, and San Cesarians took turns guarding it. They organized an official Committee for the Cannon, to produce evidence for the trial. All San Cesario was together on this: the committee included the Communist Il Corsaro, the priest of the village, and the leader of San Cesario...
...call off his rally for lack of interest. Despite the fact that San Cesario voted 87% Red in the 1948 election, no one now has time for party activities. Said one San Cesarian to the organizer: "Everyone is busy with meetings of great importance-about the cannon...
Bessie in Flight. During World War II, old Bessie (built by International Business Machines Corp. and presented by I.B.M. to Harvard) was given the job of evaluating mathematically an electrically powered cannon that the Nazis were known to be building. Bessie chewed into a snarl of equations and proved that the weapon was utterly impractical. The U.S. relaxed while the Germans, who had no Bessie, went on wasting enormous effort on an impossible task...