Word: cannoneer
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...Cannon mountain, skiing is poor, with from nine to 20 inches of settled powder, and the rest of Franconia Notch has only five inches or less. Canaan, Bristol, Plymouth, Tamworth, and Wood stock, Vt all report good skiing on from six to eight inches of cover...
...various times the tower has supported a brass cannon for noonday salutes, wireless and television stations, an aerodynamics laboratory, a great Citroën sign, a mighty thermometer in electric lights. For years the tower's top contained the tiny apartment of its builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, pioneer steel-bridge engineer, who died...
...coming of warm weather. But Soviet military leaders claimed that German morale faltered as Red strategists dusted off guerrilla techniques unused since the first Finnish campaign: ski troops to scourge the ski-less, fleeing enemy; night raiders to swoop down on exhausted, sleeping soldiers; propeller-driven sleds mounting cannon and machine guns...
...units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert infantry. To Rommel they were cannon fodder to save his tanks and armored cars...
...parade ground at Fort Devens, Mass., a proud red and white guidon, unique in the Army, changed hands to keep a tradition flying. Inscribed on the banner, over two crossed cannon, were the words: "Battery D, 5th Field Artillery,' organized by Captain Alexander Hamilton at Watertown, New York, March 1st, 1776." The entire personnel of Battery D had just been shifted to the new 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. To maintain at least the name of the oldest regular unit in the U.S. Army, the anti-tankers switched name and standards with the 5th Artillery's Battery...