Word: cannoned
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There have been three great Speakers in American history: Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902), Joseph Cannon (1836-1926) and Sam Rayburn (1882-1961). For almost two decades, Rayburn held power in Washington. Presidents came and went: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy. But whoever was President, Sam Rayburn was Speaker. His power over one branch of government was so immense that it spilled over into the other branches...
During the long night watches as they sailed to Mururoa, La Rebaude's hands told Greenpeace stories, many of which shared the same moral: "The military lies. Corporations lie. We don't lie." Twilly Cannon, from Missoula, Montana, the boat's captain, endured months in 1990 stalking the Soviet navy as it prepared to ditch another spent nuclear reactor in the Kara Sea northeast of Murmansk. Michelle Sheather, an Australian, was on the Rainbow Warrior when the French blew it up, and had left the ship 15 minutes before the limpet mines went...
...since one of the prosecution's own expert dna witnesses admitted to errors on the stand, Simpson's lawyers may choose to limit testimony here. Also, Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, the team's star witness on flaws in the dna-testing procedures -- which he partially invented -- is a loose cannon who might say anything...
...administrative members of the UBC are Richard J. Cannon, dean for administration in the School of Public Health; Karen L. Davis, director of administrative management at the medical school; Joel C. Monell, administrative dean at the school of education; Rita B. Moore, managing auditor; Polly Price and Elizabeth W. Swain, assistant director of the Core...
Alas, director Danny Cannon hasn't the skill to make majestic melodrama plausible. As for the facetiousness, Rob Schneider sweats arsenals of ammunition as Dredd's sarcastic sidekick. But the effect is redundant since Sly is his own comic relief. By now Stallone has become a symbol for all that is goofy and grandiloquent in Hollywood's live-action summer cartoons. The hormone that courses through his movie veins could be called preposterone...