Word: cannoneer
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From nearby hills, the Chinese opened up with rifles, burp guns and mortars. Aided by air strikes and artillery from the rear, the tanks lashed the ridges with their machine guns and 90-mm. cannon. Meanwhile the crews were trying to get out the mired tanks. One came free with a loud, sighing whoosh, and a retriever hauled the mine-damaged tank to the rear...
...clubs have accepted the program, but with stringent reservations. The graduate boards of governors of Cannon and Charter clubs agreed to let students serve at their tables but only if enough other clubs do the same...
...just swinging into its bomb run ten minutes from the target when the first fighters flashed down. Major Crecelius' gunners lined up the sights of their radar-controlled 20-mm. cannon. The fighters bored in, slipped under the B-36's tail and banked around for another pass. Suddenly, something went wrong. Screaming down at the "hostile" bomber, an F-51 went out of control, slipped over on its back, and, with a thundering explosion, ripped into the B-36 amidships...
...there was nothing delicate about the two French Revolution songs which closed the first half of the program. The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and soloists sang lustily (and well) and the orchestra was loud in Francois Gossee's rowdy arrangement of "La Marscillaise." The original score called for a cannon blast near end, but the pistol used in this performance was sufficiently starting...
...Constellation Bataan into the glare of massed floodlights at San Francisco airport. As he reached the ground, hundreds broke past police lines and surrounded him in a gabbling, jostling, hand-grabbing throng; they stayed around him as an Army band pumped unheard music, while officials pushed & shoved, and cannon banged out a 17-gun salute. It took 20 noisy minutes before the MacArthurs got into their...