Word: cannoned
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...sold right then and there—have been ever since,” Burbidge said. Once Burbidge gained status in the scientific community, she took a stand to improve opportunities for women in astronomy. When offered the American Astronomical Society’s 1972 Annie Jump Cannon Award, given exclusively to women, she refused it because she wanted to be measured against everyone in her field. Burbidge said she believes the field of astronomy has made significant progress since her career began, with the playing field now more level for female astronomers. Other panelists said they have worked diligently...
...nation’s military. In fact, the day after George Washington was appointed by the Second Continental Congress as America’s first commander-in-chief, he first rallied and organized his army at Cambridge Common—a historic site still marked by a flag and cannon that Harvard students pass daily. Moreover, Harvard quartered George Washington’s troops in Massachusetts Hall, and the current university president’s home, Wadsworth House. Harvard’s affiliation with the military continued until 1969 when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to expel...
...Hall because of a report concerning an open window and bullets strewn on the floor. The officer determined that the bullets were fakes and had been left from a party held the night before. Oct. 30: 3:22 p.m.—An officer investigated the theft of a Cannon digital camera worth $200 and cell phone worth $100 at Currier House. 4:54 p.m.—An officer responded to Au Bon Pain on 1360 Mass. Ave. because an individual had reportedly been using the bathroom for an exorbitant amount of time. It was determined that lingering customer...
...favorite for weirdness is the drugged-out scene between Karen and a girl dressed as Alice in Wonderland)—enough of the latter for the MPAA to slap the movie with an NC-17 rating. Underneath all that, however, is a simplistic whodunit (was it the loose cannon? The straight arrow? The butler?) without too many character nuances getting in the way. Scenes with the mother of the dead girl, intended to add a more human dimension to the murder, tend toward the maudlin and ill-advised. The central scene of the movie, which is destined for infamy...
...House. But whereas he had been accustomed to just stepping downstairs to the majority leader's spacious suite of Capitol offices after a House vote, dusk last Thursday afternoon found DeLay outside on the Capitol Plaza, waiting at a traffic light to return to his office in the Cannon House Office Building across the street. Just like any other Congressman. --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas and Hillary Hylton/ Austin and Perry Bacon Jr. and Massimo Calabresi/ Washington