Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commercial real estate on Long Island. Six years later, Morhouse was convicted of bribery in a liquor-license scandal. Rockefeller commuted the sentence for Morhouse, then ill of cancer, in 1970. By then the loan had been reduced to $86,313, which Rockefeller canceled. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Howard Cannon, a Democrat, said that he was bothered by such a gift to "a convicted felon...
...week's end, in a letter responding to a request for more information from Senator Cannon, Rockefeller named other recipients of his generosity and placed the total funds given to 18 present or former public officials and staff members since 1957 at $1,778,878. Rockefeller paid about $840,000 in taxes on those gifts. Another $326,290 was bestowed on nongovernmental associates, including $155,000 to Emmet John Hughes, an author, journalist and former adviser to President Eisenhower...
...without cracking the mold. It becomes clear that Leonardo, despite Michelangelo's bitching about his ineptitude as a sculptor, knew exactly how to make the horse and was prevented from executing his plan only because, in the end, he had no bronze: it had all been requisitioned for cannon against the French...
With the score tied 7-7 midway through the third period, Berezo intercepted a Tufts pass and returned it to the Jumbo 35-yard line. Moments later, Crimson quarterback Tim Davenport found his tight end Jim Cannon open in the end zone for a 14-yard scoring pass, giving Harvard its first lead...
John Sigillito was the leading Harvard rusher with 67 yards in six carries, while Larry Schember added 41 in eight attempts. Cannon, who scored an insurance touchdown in the final period on a 35-yard pass from Paul Halas, was the leading receiver with three receptions for 70 yards...