Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombing runs and dogfights with MiGs. Only in the last decade has the Air Force produced a good close-support plane, the A10, which can fly slowly enough to find enemy tanks, is sturdy enough to take hits, and is capably armed with a simple and effective 30-mm cannon. Tactical Air Command pilots ridicule the A10, joking that they fear being hit from the rear by birds. In recent years, the Air Force has tried to delete the plane from its budget...
...master's quarters on the 1,200-ft. Santa Monica pier. Beachfront houses in the communities of Venice, San Diego, Seal Beach, Ventura and Sunset Beach were extremely hard-hit. In the exclusive Malibu colony, waves left the homes of Film Stars Bruce Dern, Burgess Meredith and Dyan Cannon awash with debris. "I knew it was all over," said Colony Resident Becky Ilagen, "when I saw the hot tub sail by into the ocean...
...accepting a kickback of $55,000 on a pension-fund loan and served nine months in jail. Last December, as a result of an FBI probe dubbed "Operation Pendorf' (for penetrate Dorfman), he and Teamsters President Roy Williams were convicted of conspiring to bribe former Democratic Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada in return for his putative help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. Scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, Dorfman, 60, faced up to 55 years in prison...
...reprehensible because it is officially sanctioned and done with great ceremony in the name of us all." Not simply just as bad, but worse: this may be the central emotional truth for those who most passionately disapprove of executions. The cretinous killer or the seething psychopath is a loose cannon. But the well-orchestrated modern execution, careful, and thoroughly considered, is horrible because of its meticulous sanity. Executions are worse, in the abolitionists' moral scheme, because the government is always in control; it knows better, but kills anyway...
MARRIED: Margaret Paebody Cannon, 1965 (divorced, 1970); Jane Gott O'Hare, 1973. CHILD: Christopher, 1968 (deccased...