Word: cannoneer
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...proclaimed austerity, the new budget brought out cries of horror in Congress. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen called it "incredible," and fellow Republicans in the Senate and House denounced it as "radical," "ridiculous," "morally wrong," and "straight from a dreamland of fiscal fantasy." Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the budget was "monstrous," predicted that his committee would "find places to cut it substantially." Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright said the budget "seems extraordinarily high." And New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson pronounced the budget "discouraging...
...from under the stairs. Nonetheless, some moments were passably funny, like the skit about the fellow who buys an apartment so fully automated that it looks after his emotional needs and sings He's a Jolly Good Fellow to cheer him up, but eventually turns against him. A cannon rolls out of the wall and shoots him dead...
...fashioned approach will solve the problem of the modern missileman. McDonald's advice to his colleagues: Go back to the launching method used by Jules Verne in his From the Earth to the Moon. Verne's fictional spaceship of 1865 was fired out of a giant cannon-and the shot would have failed, for several reasons. For one thing, air resistance would have slowed the moon-bound vehicle. But McDonald argues for a sophisticated, factual approach to the Verne fiction...
...story as Lawrence told it. Sent to Arabia to scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men across a notoriously impassable waste that is known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from Aqaba, and Lawrence leads 3,000 tribesmen...
...near for the rebels, for British troops began pouring into Brunei by air. Hawker Hunter jets of the R.A.F. buzzed low over rebel emplacements firing blank 20-mm. cannon shells; many rebel troops fled in terror because they had never before heard the shriek of a jet engine. Other rebels fought on, inflicted substantial casualties on Britain's tough little Gurkha troops. The Gurkhas retaliated by lopping off a few rebel heads. Finally British numbers began to tell and the rebels faded away into the jungle...