Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every two years, Dow would give money to whatever poor soul the Republicans were using as cannon fodder for the campaign of the unbeatable Democratic member of Congress, Tip O'Neill...
Lebed has already proved his vote-getting ability, winning almost 15% in the first round last June. But now that he is on the official stage in Moscow, he is turning into something of a loose cannon in the eyes of his government colleagues. In a series of public statements Lebed called Mormons "scum," told a visitor not to talk "like a Jew," and suggested the position of Vice President should be re-established, with himself in the role. As a strongman, "I look more like a Vice President," he told state television. "I need more powers," he said, even...
...Starting at 8 p.m., the Boston Pops plays the annual concert in the Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade (T: Charles/MGH), featuring the Pops' special holiday program "A salute to the American Musical," a patriotic sing-along, fireworks, and a rendition of the 1812 Overture punctuated with real cannon fire...
...emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale on the Maine rocks. Cannon Rock, 1895, with its high horizon line and broad V of incoming waves framed by dark rocks, exactly captures the sensation of standing on an exposed promontory with the sea coming straight at you, like a wall...
...message stalled with the larger electorate. Lately he's a one-man version of the helpless superpower. The Contract with America is a suspended agreement, and Gingrich has the kind of approval ratings only Timothy McVeigh can envy. It can't give Gingrich much comfort to recall that Joe Cannon ended badly, getting kicked off the House Rules Committee...