Word: cannoneer
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...through the U.S., Moscow newspapers jubilantly reported, draftees were fleeing from their medical examinations-cold proof of "the lack of desire of American youth to serve as cannon fodder for the sake of increased profits for Wall Street...
...Never Again." Triumph did not last long. The Reds smashed back with 80 of their big tanks. The U.S. tank crews found out what it means to be outnumbered, outweighed and outgunned (their 75-mm. cannon were no match for the Reds' 85s). All but two of the U.S. tanks were put out of action. Red armor and infantry tore up the U.S. infantry...
...hoss shay of the ordnance on display. He patted it lovingly, sternly told photographers who had snapped him peering down the barrel of a rifle a short while before that he would not pose looking down this barrel. "You don't look down the barrel of a cannon," said he, "you might get your head shot...
During a lull between visitors, he took a long, hard look down the barrel of a cannon. He vetoed the controversial basing point bill (see BUSINESS). He had waited until the tenth and last day, after which the bill would have become law without his signature. But he had intended all along to veto it, he told a caller. He felt like the blacksmith on the jury out in Missouri, said the President. The judge asked him if he felt any prejudice against the defendant. "Oh, no, judge," said the fellow. "I think we ought to give him a fair...
Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...