Word: cannoneering
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...that, as he later said, "I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance." He needed it, for the Aguinaldo bolomen would have tried the patience of the most saintly President. Like the Viet Cong, the Filipino terrorists were experts at ambush, using bamboo cannon loaded with scrap iron in place of Charley's captured Claymore mines. Hatred for the "Flips" was reflected in a popular Army marching song, set to the tune of Tramp, Tramp, Tramp...
...designed more as bombers than fighters. And in both cases, the American pilots made use of their greater speed to surprise the Communist planes from behind. Lieut. Karl W. Richter, 23, of Holly, Mich., zeroed in on a MIG-17 that was chasing a flight of F-105s, poured cannon fire at it until its right wing broke off and the pilot ejected. Lieut. Fred A. Wilson, of Mobile, Ala., overtook another MIG-17 so fast that he had no time to adjust his gun sights. "I was about to hit him, so I thought I'd better shoot...
...habit of accumulating columnists, and last week Conniff faced the task of finding space for Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...
...Nothing Is the Same." So did Father Groppi. For eleven nights, his youthful band marched in front of Judge Cannon's large brick colonial house, and for eleven nights crowds of whites gathered to jeer. "What are you niggers doing here?" yelled the mob, adding, "Kill! Kill! Kill the jungle bunnies!" while Judge Cannon watched, almost unbelieving, from the inside. "Nothing is the same any more," he said. Soon, eggs and rocks followed the invective, and the number of hecklers rose to 2,000. On the advice of local authorities, Governor Warren Knowles last week sent in 500 National...
...Judge Cannon refused to give in -"I will remain in the Eagles as long as I live"-and Father Groppi's pickets looked to new targets among the Eagles on the bench. They marched outside the home of County Judge Christ Seraphim and threatened to lay siege to the home of Judge Robert Hansen. At week's end, however, a partial truce was arranged by state officials, and Father Groppi agreed to stay out of Milwaukee's police short suburbs after dark during the Labor Day weekend...