Word: cannoneering
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...from a banana republic. It is not run by a gaudily uniformed strongman backed by a well-equipped little army. It does not even have an army; the last one was disbanded in 1948. When Lyndon Johnson visited the country in 1968. the Costa Ricans had to borrow a cannon from Panama so that they could give him the customary 21-gun salute...
...course. Thousands of them faded into the bush, shed their uniforms and, clad only in shorts, melted into streams of refugees. The Nigerians overran Owerri, the last remaining city of any size (250,-000) in Biafra. Then they pressed on toward Uli with their 122-mm. Soviet cannon, shelling the strip from a range of 13 miles...
...Manning dashed 18 yds. for a first-quarter touchdown to give the Rebels a 14-0 edge, later heaved a 30-yd. touchdown pass to Vernon Studdard. Montgomery completed 17 out of 32 passes for 340 yds. and two touchdowns. The margin of victory was provided by Safety Glenn Cannon, who intercepted a pass in the end zone and halted a fourth-quarter Arkansas drive by recovering a fumble as Ole Miss finally...
...Carol and Ted and Alice. A Hollywood comedy about Esalen-inspired liberation in California. The philosophical outlook is solidly middle-class, but the script (by Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker) and the performances of Elliot Gould and Dyan Cannon are witty and sometimes surprisingly perceptive...
...RIGHTS, then, we should hate Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. But consider: Ted and Alice are the most convincing married couple to appear in a Hollywood film for a long time. As played by Gould and Cannon, they are funny and sometimes touching and always appealing. Even if Hollywood still has to sell-out when it presents revolutionaries, it has at least learned to give us human straight guys...