Word: cannoneering
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Because of his rambunctious style, Califano is a tempting target for nicknames. He has been called "Crazy Califano," "Mad, Mad Joe," "the Dynamo".and "the Boy Earthquake." He has also been described as "a loose cannon," and, contrarily, "a torpedo?point him in one direction and he goes." When the tobacco lobby, outraged by Califano's drive to keep young people from smoking, printed bumper stickers proclaiming, CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO MY HEALTH, some of the Secretary's subordinates proudly pasted them on their office walls...
Summoned home after a 20-year absence to underwrite these marriages, Andrew is most concerned that Barbara should be squandering her high passion on the Salvation Army. He agrees to see her shelter if she and Cusins will visit his cannon works. At the shelter, we meet sycophantic derelicts, ruffians and pitiably broken men. But it is Undershaft who nonchalantly breaks Barbara's heart, and opens her eyes. He signs a check for ?5,000, matching a sum from a notorious distiller named Bodger, so that the Salvation Army shelters may stay open. When the Army's general...
...Harvard never really had a chance after Princeton coach Dave Benjamin wheeled out freshman cannon Jay Lapidus, the Tiger ace who had sat out the singles with a swollen ankle. Lundy and Chaikovsky put up a game fight, but Lapidus and Shiras proved more than equal to the task, as they prevailed...
...James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening to cast negative votes...
...Dolly N. Cannon '46, chairman of a committee to organize activities in celebration of Radcliffe's centennial, announced the decision yesterday in a presentation ceremony at Agassiz House...