Word: cannoned
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Rock-throwing black and mixed-race protesters fought pitched battles with police in the southern city all week. The authorities responded with two new weapons. One is a water cannon that spews purple dye onto demonstrators so they can be identified later and arrested. The press immediately dubbed the substance purple rain. The second is more lethal: a rapid-fire gun mounted atop an armored personnel carrier that shoots potentially deadly rubber bullets...
...where it lacked polish (an assistant coach: "One thing we'd like to do is get that sucker in the end zone"), it made up in enthusiasm (the play-by-play announcer: "That'll make it third and a country mile!"). During the broadcast, you could have fired a cannon down the main streets of either town and not hit a living soul...
...guerrillas quickly retreated to the fourth floor, where the judges were being held. For the rest of the day the troops raked the front of the building with cannon and machine-gun fire. Inside, the guerrillas held frantic telephone talks in an attempt to demand publicity for their antigovernment views on TV and in newspapers. "We want the people of Colombia to know that the army has never given us a chance," said Otero. "All they've given us is hot lead." At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the voice of Chief Justice Reyes was heard pleading, "For God's sake...
Research for a recent anthology, Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering, by Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center in Salt Lake City, turned up about 5,000 poems by contemporary cowboys (known in their slang as waddies) and ranchers. "If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em," says Knox. "I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry." The first poem Knox penned more than a decade ago describes a barroom brawl he lost, and he's been at it ever since...
...blowout that was so evidently seen and heard . . . gave off three muffled cannon rounds like a bombardment, so loud that they could be heard for more than 30 leagues around the base. In the region there were two rivers, the Guali and the La-gunilla . . . both were flooded with melted snow. It didn't really seem like water, but masses of ash and soil, with such a pestilent odor of sulfur that it couldn't be tolerated even from afar...