Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution censuring McCarthy in December 1954. Zwicker is now a major general, commander of the XX Reserve Corps. *The nays, aside from Morse: Alaska's E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...
Radio for Cannon. For a while, he did basic physical research on terrestrial magnetism, which influences cosmic rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert...
...revolution of his own against a Communist-linked coalition in 1948, told 300 veterans of his civil war that honest democrats "want the approval of the people, not of the rabble. I have been where they want to convert the people into a mob and even turn them into cannon fodder for the Soviets. In every American country there exists a Communist nucleus that backs a demagogue's leadership. Demagoguery, No! Communism, No!" Roared the veterans: "Down with Fidel Castro...
Piatigorsky who alternates a tricky top spin serve with his vicious cannon ball, has yet to lose a match this spring in intra-squad play. Possessing much match experience, he plays well at the net aided by an extremely sharp volley...
...Hampshire: Cannon (Franconia), 30-48 base, 4 powder, good-upper, fair to good-lower; Cranmore (North Conway), 30-48 base, 6 powder, good; Sunapee, 6-50 base, 8 powder, excellent but operation today doubtful due to drifting; Mittersill (Franconia), 15-25 base, 4 powder, good; Wildcat, 35-55 base, 8 powder, excellent...