Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civilized. Concord's races attract a diverse crowd that includes one-gallus retirees, peroxide mountain mamas and lonely textile workers from the nearby Cannon Mills. A crude spectator pecking order exists among fans. Families that applaud Chevrolets won't socialize with friends of the Dodge boys. Mechanic Howard Sussman buys a $4 ticket just to see the power slides. Says he: "My wife can't understand how I can fix cars all week and then spend the weekend watching them race...
Died. Robert M. ("Joe") Cannon, 75, retired Army lieutenant general, who served as chief of staff to General Joseph Stilwell in the China-Burma-India theater from 1943 to 1945 and, immediately following the war, commanded a task force that disarmed the Japanese forces and destroyed their war materiel on the islands between Okinawa and Formosa; of a heart attack; in Wilton, Conn...
...thanks to an album of Greek folk tunes that he recorded last April. Judging from Savalas' enthusiasm after one performance, he may have brighter prospects as a cafe crooner than a TV cop. Says he: "I was walking four feet off the ground and singing like a cannon." A cannon? "Like a cannon and a bird...
...shouldered arms, then clattered over durable Dutch cobblestones to man sod redoubts recently thrown up at the foot of each major street leading to the harbor. At the Grand Battery, where Colonel Henry Knox, commander of Continental artillery, has set up a row of old and partly rusted cannon, sweating artillerymen stood to their pieces and peered southward across the waters. Alarm guns roared to alert northern batteries and fortifications in the woods along both east and west shores of the island. Major General Israel Putnam hastily ferried over from Manhattan to Long Island with 500 men to support Brigadier...
...Britain's industry has been mobilized. Yorkshire looms are supplying soldiers' uniforms, and Chatham sail-and ropemakers are working overtime to help equip ships for the Atlantic convoys. Other manufacturers throughout the kingdom are equally busy providing linen, shirts and blankets-not to mention muskets and cannon. To feed the Germans, farmers are being asked to grow more cabbages...