Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executives in New York with unsolicited letters, some of them assessing program lineups. CBS eventually took him on. His first triumph was to make Saturday morning profitable for the network by replacing sitcom reruns with new cartoon series. Later, as programming chief, he gave the network such treasures as Cannon, Maude, Rhoda, Phyllis, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn...
Holtz wrote a victory song for the team during the pre-season but, like Napolean's Marseillaise-singing recruits, Holtz's charges have not amounted to much more than cannon fodder for the opposition...
...pledge our lives, our sacred honor, and up to $1,000' "-finds the current state of campaign humor "dreadful." Columnist Robert Yoakum polled nearly three dozen White House correspondents for their opinion of Administration humor. Not one rated the Ford funny bone favorably, and Washington Post Reporter Lou Cannon placed it "slightly ahead of the Federal Register and somewhat behind the Congressional Record...
...last week. Called back to active duty to help restage the Battle of St. Michaels, in which American artillerymen beat off an attack by British ships during the War of 1812, retired U.S. Ah" Force Major General Goldwater took command of the defenses, fired off a few ceremonial cannon-and considered the meaning of it all for an old political warhorse. "This is the only fight I've ever been in," conceded the unsuccessful 1964 G.O.P. presidential candidate, "that I knew I would win before I started...
...said. "You gonna die. Jimmy Cannon, he was once sitting right where you are, and he died. You ever think about that...