Word: cannoneering
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...through the narrow canals, were targets for snipers and mortar and rocket attacks. Navy personnel, who regularly man the Delta craft, stand a 70% chance of being wounded during a year's service with the Riverine Force. The Aid Boats, bristling with machine guns, grenade launchers and a cannon, are able to go to the rescue. Wounded are picked up and shuttled away from enemy fire, then quickly evacuated on "dust-off" helicopters to the nearest U.S. hospital. In the festering Delta, such swift care of combat wounds often spells the difference between life and death...
...California, two attractive young San Franciscans named William and Louise Thoresen await trial next week on charges of possessing 70 tons of weapons and ammunition, including a 37-mm. cannon. On the national day of mourning for Robert F. Kennedy, promoters of a Davenport, Iowa, pistol-shooting match decided to go ahead with the event but to observe a moment of silence after each volley, out of respect to the assassinated Senator...
...changing the d in Sneyd to a. At the Canadian embassy in Lisbon he told the consul: "My name has been misspelled," and was issued a new passport on May 16. Thus, with the two cards and pistol in pocket, he flew off to London and incarceration at Cannon Row police station, a stone's throw from...
When that failed to silence the Arab cannon, Israeli fighter-bombers streaked over the Jordan and pounded "Long Tom" gun emplacements near Irbid, a town twelve miles inside the cease-fire line. The Jordanians reported 35 dead, mostly civilians, and the Israelis gave their toll as three dead farmers and several injured...
...shortstop, Grate made the Greater Boston team and again won the Wendell Bat as Harvard won the Eastern title. There are persistent rumors that Major League scouts have been in contact with the Harvard switchhitter; he has good range and, says assistant coach Loyal Park, "an arm like a cannon...