Word: cannoneer
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...fresh pink carnations, murmured in German, "I brought you some different colors today; God bless you!" Understanding the sentiment if not the words, the young soldier accepted the flowers with a grin, muttered "Danke schön" proudly stuffed them in the perforated barrel cooler of his 20-mm. cannon. Farther up the street a pack of M48 "Patton" tanks were demurely decorated by jars of bright red asters and daisies perched on their armor...
...Scott--had better focus their spyglasses before they start building lifeboats. For it's not leeberge, we're worried about, but another ship which is, in the eyes of our sailors, continually encroaching on our rightful waters. Of course, both vessels carry an overwhelming complement of hair-triggered cannon...
...when the G.O.P. won control of Congress, the nominal heir apparent was James R. Mann of Illinois, the Republican floor leader. But Mann had been a supporter of the policies of despotic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and he lost the speakership to Massachusetts' Frederick H. Gillett...
...this overwhelming setting, Russia made its way much as the U.S. did in its Far West. In each case there were nomadic tribes-the Tartars, Kirghiz and Samoyeds in Siberia like the Indians in America-who learned to their cost that bows and arrows seldom win against muskets and cannon...
Unhidden Tears. When he was 15, Sonny was banished to Valley Forge Military Academy, a seat of learning heavily fortified with boxwood hedges and Revolutionary War cannon against dangers lurking in the Pennsylvania hills. Although the school is a recognizable model for Pencey Prep, the neurosis farm in Catcher, young Salinger?who talked of grabbing the big loot as a Hollywood writer-producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach...