Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday he buttoned up his blue suit, took the elevator to the basement of the Cannon Building and mounted his ten-year-old, three-speed Sears bike. He pumped out on New Jersey Avenue, rounded the corner to Independence Avenue. Beautiful day, he mused to himself. "Hi fellows!" he yelled to The Bronx's Mario Biaggi and fellow Oklahoman Tom Steed. They stared, then laughed and waved...
...Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." Despite cool weather and gray, overcast skies that occasionally exploded in rainstorms, it was a week of exuberant festivity, offering the kind of stately pageantry that no other nation in the world can equal. Silver trumpets blared fanfares, batteries of cannon fired multigun salutes, Union Jacks bedecked homes and shops throughout Britain...
Large sections of The Shad Treatment describe Evans's family, beginning with the arrival of an ancestor in 1619. Most of the narrative centers on Stephan Evans, Mac's great-great-grandfather, who built the family fortune through an early ironworks and cannon manufactury for the Civil War. The sections on Stephan Evans, his father, his brother, and his own life before the campaign are mostly good, interesting stories, filled with evocative description; when taken together they help explain Mac and his attachment to Thomas Jefferson Shadwell...
...leader of this party is a gentle spirit, dignified and impractical. To him there is nothing ridiculous in the sight of his men toiling along treacherous trails, weighted down by armor, struggling to transport an entirely useless cannon. He has brought his wife with him and his second in command's daughter. What begins as an obviously dangerous journey soon turns into a manifestly self-destructive one. The rafts built to navigate the river are inadequate to its currents. And then, of course, there are the Indians, always in the shadows, picking off stragglers. But the worst danger derives...
Died. Harold Hoskins, 81, businessman and former director of the State Department's Foreign Service Institute; in Manhattan. Between his years of service in both world wars, Hoskins became a vice president of Cannon Mills. At the end of World War II he held several diplomatic posts in the Middle East before assuming direction of the institute that oversees the training of foreign service personnel...