Word: cannoneering
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...cannon mounted in the tail...
...Soviet jeeps, about 25 command cars and six Russian armored cars. They have Kalashnikov submachine guns. Simonov carbines. Degtiarev light machine guns, ZPU antiaircraft machine guns, as well as Russian assault guns and 60-and 81-mm. mortars. In the hills around the plain are new Russian 85-mm. cannon manned by Viet Minh "technicians." The Viet Minh are everywhere. They drive trucks, operate radios, build roads, teach tactics, run a 300-bed hospital in an assembly of tents and shacks. In the village of Phongsavan, a Viet Minh "people's store"dispenses cigarettes, food and a sweet North...
...Police Power." For the defense, Assistant Attorney General Raymond J. Cannon argued that the laws are "a proper exercise of the police power of the state." Said Roman Catholic Cannon: "A state has exclusive jurisdiction over the morals of its people." He got a rough grilling...
Chief Justice Earl Warren asked: "If Mrs. Doe's life is endangered unless she receives the treatment sought to be prescribed, do you believe" the state should prevent her getting such treatment?" Cannon hedged. The Chief Justice pressed again: "Even if it is conceded that the lady would die?" Obviously unhappy, Cannon said...
Revolt of the Southerners. For half a century beginning in 1858, the Speaker was himself a member of the Rules Committee. Even when the revolt of 1910 against tyrannical "Uncle Joe" Cannon deprived the Speaker of his place on the Rules Committee, it still remained pretty much under the control of the Speaker as the leader of the majority party...