Word: cannoneering
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...these toys fail to please, nationwide big sellers also include Douglas Army A-24 Attack Bomber, 155M Long Tom Field Cannon, Cape Canaveral Play Set, 5' long Basooka Rocket Gun, Electronic Rifle Range with Motorized Moving Target, Sonar Subhunt with a radar screen so you can "search out and destroy your enemy," and Astroscope, that "Sends Up Satellites" (only for children over...
...clubs young reporters with a tongue like a blackthorn stick and sends them scurrying back to their editors filled with terror and fine quotes. It is a grievous lack. Almost every other part of U.S. society has had such a man: the House of Representatives had its Uncle Joe Cannon, the tobacco industry its George Washington Hill, labor its John L. Lewis and baseball its Ted Williams...
Friday night, Cannon pettishly demanded a quorum call. By this time, as Cannon well knew, there were scores of Representatives back home campaigning. There was no quorum, so the House had to meet again the next...
...Saturday there was a House quorum, and the surly Representatives voted down Cannon's money-saving motions. That brought a furious floor blast from Cannon against the whole political atmosphere on the Hill. "Gentlemen," he roared, "justice is for barter and sale to the highest bidder. No one thinks about principle any more. They are ready to sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon...
...With Cannon's fiery admonishments ringing in their ears, the members quickly and at long last laid the 87th Congress to rest...