Word: cannoneering
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With University of Georgia Dean of Men Bill Tate, Trillin choked on tear gas and dodged cannon crackers during campus integration riots, and was roughed up by demonstrating students. He was with Charlayne Hunter, first Negro woman admitted to Georgia U., when anti-integration demonstrators rushed the car in which they were riding...
...house is cantilevered over a cliff, like a bird's nest on the muzzle of a memorial cannon. In the driveway is a Jaguar sedan named Black Widow. In the two-story living room is a red canvas swing hung from parachute cords. In the dressing-table mirror is the reason for the house, the car and the swing...
...depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people to death." Raged Missouri's Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee: "What a way to run a business-any business, from a peanut stand to a bank. And yet that is the way we are running the greatest government on earth. Let us close the back door...
...Cubans were transferred to nearby La Suiza; they were brought back as soon as the visitors left. The recruits got rugged training in jungle, commando and night fighting techniques from a dozen U.S. experts and one Filipino instructor. They learned to use the most modern U.S. weapons-bazookas, recoilless cannon, machine guns. So strict was security that only a few officer B-26 pilots were allowed to visit nearby towns; infantry recruits were confined to camp. Incoming mail was addressed to an A.P.O. number; outgoing mail, heavily censored, was carried by pouch on a weekly C46 flight to Miami...
...land is so swampy that after World War I surplus dealers reportedly disposed of several French 75 mm. cannon by removing their wheels and carriages and letting them sink into...