Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked what impact this rule had on newsletters, Barbara Dahlke, press secretary to Ethics Committee Chairman Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nev.), said a number of offices simply stopped producing them. "I'll bet some offices are having a tough time changing their style," she said. As for Cannon's newsletters, Dahlke said only "minor changes" were needed to comply with the rule...
Fromholtz's aggression came in the form of cannon-like crosscourt shots which left Evert flatfooted. The loss was Evert's first opening round defeat...
Suddenly the music stops. It is 2 a.m., and out of nowhere materialized uniformed policemen, plaid-jacketed plainclothesmen, and a searchlight the size of a cannon. The disc-jockey abandons his notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...
...doubtful that an American President could confidently make that kind of statement today. In a handful of European countries, Communist parties are approaching the threshold of political power-not at the barrel of a Soviet cannon but in open and free elections. As a result, the specter of a Communist presence in Western Europe is stirring more concern and debate than at any time since the early years of the cold war, when the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine and the Atlantic Alliance blocked Moscow's attempts to suborn democracy in France, Italy and Germany. Secretary of State Henry...
...exactly prohibitive, but the limit may prove a harrowing restraint to the ample egos in the upper chamber. Just before the new rules were approved, Nevada's Howard Cannon-who happens to be chairman of the committee-had sent out a newsletter with nine references to himself on the first page, six on the second. His latest two-page newsletter, however, is a model of restraint: it contains a total of only five such references...