Word: cannoneering
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...Democrats: Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Wyoming's J. J. Hickey, Florida's George Smathers, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Republicans: Colorado's Gordon Allott. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Maryland's John Marshall Butler, Hawaii's Hiram Fong, Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Texas' John Tower...
...permitted in spots to approach the wall to chat, even exchange foodstuffs and newspapers, if the Vopo guard feels indulgent. But anger remains. Sunny weekend weather brought a crowd of West Berlin youths to the border at Markgrafenstrasse. Some began throwing small paving stones at a Vopo water-cannon truck. The Vopos retaliated by firing a battering stream of water at the assailants-until a U.S. tank rumbled to the wall. The Vopo cannon's squirt quickly subsided into an embarrassed dribble...
...operations and, in addition, would match dollar for dollar such aid as the railroads were able to squeeze out of state and local governments. Primarily designed to stimulate local aid to the passenger lines, the ICC proposal was not calculated to cover all U.S. railroad losses, which last year cannon-balled to $485 million and will go higher in 1961. Hutchinson proposed to limit the federal handouts to a total of $52 million a year, of which the New Haven alone might get as much as $7.2 million (up to $2.4 million in direct aid, $4.8 million in matched funds...
...recoilless rifle and parked with the gun's muzzle pointed directly across at the Reds. At Friedrichstrasse-the one entry point now open to non-Germans-a platoon of American infantrymen moved up directly to the border opposite a group of East German Vopos and a water-cannon truck; an M48 tank and two armored cars rumbled up and parked near...
...cars and armed Jeeps rumbled slowly back and forth along the frontier, making certain that the Communists did not try to enforce their 100-meter rule. West Berliners remained free to travel the border streets as they pleased. Overhead, U.S. helicopters kept constant watch. Next day, when one water cannon fired a stream at a crowd of West Berliners, G.I.s of the 6th Infantry Regiment, who were also splattered, reached grimly for the tear gas grenades that they carried conveniently on their shoulder straps. The squirting stopped abruptly...