Word: cannoned
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...Harvard events, rare are the opportunities to find free, healthy alternatives. At yesterday’s Harvest of Health, the annual Harvard University Health Services fair, students gained access to UHS’ many services, leaving the tent loaded with bags full of healthy goodies. Linda C. Cannon, a patient advocate who has coordinated the fair for the last three years, estimated that approximately 2,000 students passed through the white tent outside the Science Center, a number comparable to previous years. “Our objective is to spread awareness of the many services that we offer...
...District of Columbia vs. Heller, which upheld an individual’s right to bear arms for private use, Scalia responded, “Bearing arms—you can’t bear a tank.” “You can’t bear a cannon or a mortar of the sort in use in 1781, so it didn’t even the playing field between the citizens and the standing army,” he said. Although many audience members said they had mixed views of originalism, most agreed that Scalia?...
...rank and file weren't necessarily ready to play follow the leader. Chasing Boehner and his deputies down the Cannon House Office Building's marble stairs, reporters asked if the party's top dogs believed they would get enough votes. They expected "substantial support," barked Representative Roy Blunt, the second ranking House Republican, who represented the House GOP at the negotiations, as he hustled away...
...believed, only the opening salvo in a war that would not be over until the unions were driven out of Los Angeles. Compromise would be surrender. Rather than negotiate, he prepared for new battles. He now called himself "General." He christened his sprawling home "The Bivouac." He mounted a cannon on the hood of his limousine and made sure his chauffeur was prepared to repel, at his command, any enemy attacks. He modeled the paper's new printing plant on a fanciful vision of an impregnable fortress, complete with battlements, sentry boxes, and firing holes offering protected lines of fire...
...best novel I've read in a long, long, long, long time...a literary feast of a book," Winfrey gushed on her show, saying it deserved to enter the cannon alongside works by John Steinbeck and Harper...