Word: cannoneer
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...ceaselessly in Britain children were registered, moved to western ports, prepared for the voyage into an unknown future by parents who feared never seeing them again, so on the other side of the Channel Hitler's preparations went forward. Sweating and laboring, the gun crews moved their cannon nearer the Channel; pungent-smelling aviation gas was stored for the bombers that would soon roar over the darkened cities; 500-lb., 1,000-lb., 2,000-lb. bombs were brought up to air fields, bombs destined to plunge through the roofs of houses, which always look vacant from...
...isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by making U. S. citizens believe that Britain's cause was hopeless. It was Hitler's old familiar technique of waging war with words. With rumors, fear, suspicion diabolically sown, he had again set out to demoralize his enemy before the cannon spoke...
...Beginning roughly with the Boer War, the introduction of rapid-fire small arms and cannon, and later the combination of the entrenched machine-gun and the barbed-wire entanglement, tilted the balance between the defense and the offense markedly in favor of the former. The great stabilized fronts of 1914-18 seemed to emphasize this growing power of the defense. . . . The idea reached its peak in the later writings of Liddell Hart, at one time recognized as the leading British military critic and in his early years an outstanding advocate of the offensive principle of surprise...
...party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition based at Bagdad which is making a prehistoric survey of North Syria and Iraq. All these archeologists have to be ready to jump at the first crack of a cannon...
...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...