Word: cannoneering
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...cannon. This kind of firepower might yet require the direct action of the U.S. Marines as well as a sizable chunk of the rest of the U.S.'s ready power...
...year-old "out" with the republicans. His account digs up no buried hatchets, which makes this, of all other memoirs of the Troubles, the most acceptable to the nonpartisan. The Corkite republicans had their generals (milkmen and cobblers in private life), their officers' mess, and even a cannon with homemade shells. But they had no front line. By the time they established this military necessity, it was Sunday, recalls O'Connor, and "after his longing for Mass, an Irishman's strongest characteristic is his longing for home and Mother, and anyone who knew his Ireland would have...
...Hammarskjold's men already had got a taste of bitter Congolese defiance. In Matadi, the Congo's major port, Congolese troops turned on the 135-man Sudanese U.N. garrison with rifles, machine guns, mortars and 37-mm. cannon in a two-day battle that left two Sudanese dead, 13 wounded. The rest piled their blue U.N. helmets in one pile, their weapons in another, then marched out to be shipped back to Leopoldville in humiliating surrender...
Justice William J. Brennan. a Roman Catholic, noted that the law's most serious effect was to prevent operation of birth-control clinics: the last one in Connecticut was shut down in 1939 after two doctors and a nurse were prosecuted under the 1879 law-Cannon also argued that in virtually every session of the state legislature since 1923, bills to amend or repeal the 1879 law have been introduced and all have failed. Therefore, contended Cannon, the law "represents the will of the people." That was a way of saying that Connecticut politicians of whatever creed cringe before...
Collectors' Items? It was Justice Felix Frankfurter who brought down the court-and the house. "Can you go into any drugstore in Hartford, as you can in the wicked city of New York, and buy contraceptives?" Not to his personal knowledge, replied Cannon cannily. The operative word was "personal."' Virtually every Connecticut drugstore sells condoms freely, and most sell diaphragms and spermicidal jellies and creams right along with teddy bears and cosmetics...