Word: cannoneering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such punishments can sometimes be draconian. Gas-pump owner Oscar Porcelli, for example, faces the prospect of losing his string of New York gas stations for a RICO conviction stemming from sales-tax evasion. "He made a mistake, but not a mistake that should warrant shooting him with a cannon," says his attorney, Vivian Shevitz...
...drugs to take its place as our nation's top priority, to interfere with banking interests and Third World debt schemes. Time to interfere with State Department bureaucrats' quest to make the world safe for cocktail parties." State Department officials call Von Raab a "loose cannon" who lacks "a certain rationality." He responds . in kind, calling his Foggy Bottom critics "wimps . . . conscientious objectors in the war on drugs...
...were set afire, and the sound of shooting filled the air. Troops firing from the rooftops and upper floors of Radio Beijing and the Minzu Hotel wounded and killed people who were asleep in their homes. Across town, reporters sighted tanks on the move, some of them firing their cannon indiscriminately down what appeared to be near-empty thoroughfares. Huge blazes swept across residential districts...
...brief exchange, including several rounds from a tank cannon, occurred just south of the Military Museum in western Beijing. It followed unconfirmed reports of soldiers fighting soldiers in the western and southeastern parts of the city Monday and earlier...
...just beginning to understand that the Speaker is at the top of our political structure along with the President and the Chief Justice of the U.S. An assault on his authority is a historic event. No Speaker has been forced from office because of personal scandal. The autocratic Joe Cannon was stripped of much of his power back in 1910, and he withered away. But that was a sheer political play by fed-up House members...