Word: cannoneer
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...been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table. And then a soldier must be a man who is willing to throw thousands of his gallant countrymen into the cannon's mouth to test the efficacy of a strategic principle. Mr. Arliss's "Wellington" would hardly have been able to do this. He would have thought, in his whimsical fashion, of the widows and orphans
...Paraphrasing Henry Morley, for purposes of ambition living men may be blown asunder at the cannon's mouth, cut up with sword or ax, or probed with military lances, but no rational disposition may be made of dead...
...radiation and radiation into matter. In 1919 the fact that radiant energy responds to gravitation as matter does was demonstrated by the bending of starlight on passing around the sun. And, according to the theory, not only radiant energy but energy of motion had mass. Thus a steamship or cannon ball weighed infinitesimally more when moving than at rest...
...best friends, Benito Mussolini has a penchant for crowning with a touch of the ridiculous even his greatest achievements. Last week, having created an entire new province for Italy by ditching, draining and damming the once pestilential Pontine Marshes, II Duce pronounced an oration niftily punctuated by cannon shots...
...excited peasants from all of Italy's 93 provinces who surrounded him the Dictator finally exclaimed: "Now you understand what the cannon's voice has thundered in unison with mine! Both the plowshare and the sword are made of sharpened steel, similar to the faith that burns in our hearts...