Word: cannoneering
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...knows at least one family who has had a son or a brother or a son-in-law killed or wounded in this war." On Tuesday, some 250 Israeli women demonstrated in a Jerusalem park, carrying placards that proclaimed GIVE US BACK OUR SONS and WE BORE CHILDREN, NOT CANNON FODDER...
...volcano's slopes, it erupted with much less fury than Mount St. Helens and gave off only a fourth to a sixth as much debris as its Yankee rival. But as Volcanologist Wendell Duffield of the U.S. Geological Survey notes, "At Mount St. Helens the barrel of the cannon was pointed laterally. At El Chichón it was pointed straight up." The result: the Mexican volcano injected much more dust, ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where the particles would be wafted high enough (at least 18 miles) to be carried in a westerly direction by prevailing...
When stalking Syrian fighters, an F-16 pilot, again using the HUD windshield images, had only to position a computer-generated "tracerline" over the MiG and fire his machine-cannon for one second; 100 20-mm rounds would have streaked toward the enemy jet. However, many of the downed MiGs were apparently hit by the latest model of the Sidewinder missile, which is being used effectively by British Sea Harriers in the Falkland Islands. The weapon adjusts its aim in flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h...
...least two bombs hit the Sir Galahad. The Sir Tristram was raked with cannon and rocket fire. According to Michael Nicholson, a British television correspondent who witnessed the attack on the Sir Galahad from ashore, "boxes of ammunition aboard exploded, shaking the ground beneath us, and soldiers crouched as bullets from the ship whistled past." Hundreds of men rushed along the decks of both ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris...
Spokesmen for all three companies and Cannon of the DOE say there have been no significant safety problems at any of the government-affiliated plants. But a recent IRRC report notes increasing widespread concern in the scientific community that low-level radiation escaping from the nuclear plants results in cancer after prolonged exposure...