Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cooperate, concerned that its spokesman would be savaged by Republican committee members. Then word got out that the committee was about to call on a well-known "unofficial" witness: free- lancer Jimmy Carter. Figuring that it would be preferable to take a predictable beating than to be dodging loose-cannon fire, the White House quickly reconsidered its position. The likely Administration witness at this week's Haiti hearings: Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott...
...seen this type of wartime melodrama too many times before. The officers are all cannibalistic monsters, the bedraggled rank and file scream cannon fodder, and the black and white cinematography, far from a stark, chilling revelation of the nightmare that is war, is predictable and bland...
...Newsday column written in the midst of a city budget fight, reporter Dennis Duggan quoted an insider in then-New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins's administration as calling Proctor a "loose cannon...
Elizabeth may be the last irreproachable monarch -- perhaps the last viable one. Some earlier rulers have been reprobates, but by custom, the press protected them. Now royals are the cannon fodder in media wars, as the Prince of Wales found out when his puerile but genuinely intimate telephone talk with Parker Bowles -- the infamous "Tampax tapes" -- was leaked...
...with the cannon no longer shaping the basis of a common body of knowledge, nothing has emerged to fill the void...