Word: cannoneer
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...Egypt has an estimated 70,000 men stationed along the canal, in addition to 10,000 commandos training for hit-and-run raids. It also has an estimated 1,000 pieces of artillery in the area, including 203-mm. cannon with a 30-mile range, as well as nearly 1,000 tanks and an undetermined number of Frog ground-to-ground missiles. Israel's opposing force is smaller but well equipped, better trained and is dug in along the formidable, 100-mile Bar-Lev Line. Moreover, it is supported by a superior air force...
...This season Marinaro has been hitting the line at a withering clip of 39 times a game. Asked why the other Cornell backs don't run the ball more often. Backfield Coach Carmen Piccone says: ''Why use a cap pistol when you've got a cannon?" Head Coach Jack Musick agrees. When Marinaro first came to Cornell from New Milford, N.J., Musick revamped his offense into a Power I formation to take advantage of the muscular tailback's bulling power and long, tackle-busting strides. Lining up directly behind Quarterback Mark Allen and Blocking Back...
...L.S.U. under coach Paul Dietzel won the national championship after winning 10 straight games. His offense, sporting All-American Billy Cannon, was nicknamed the 'White" team because this was the color of their practice jerseys, but what was the more inventive and famous nickname of his defense...
...reduce the sting of those slaps, Nixon accordingly decided to turn Hirohito's routine refueling stop in Alaska into a chiefs-of-state ceremony complete with booming cannon, Marine Corps trumpeters and satellite coverage of the event for Japan's five TV networks. But even as the President prepared to reaffirm Japanese-American friendship, the U.S. administered yet another slap to Japan...
...CANNON (CBS). This is another slice of Dashiell Ham, with William Conrad featured as a high-priced private investigator. The first episode, involving armed robbery of a rodeo box office, was unconvincing and, in the end, embarrassingly sentimental. Conrad himself, who resembles a cross between Orson Welles and Walter Cronkite, is a screen-crowding presence with a pomegranate voice enriched by eleven years as radio's Matt Dillon...