Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most people are aware, few names are more honored in the annals of mass murdet and genocide than that of Krupp. Since 1860 what is called "Krupp's killing machine" has provided and directed the use of weapons of war. To list the atrocities of the "Cannon Kings" requires volumes rather than pages. William Manchester's "The Arms of Krupp" is a gripping and well-written effort in this direction...
...formation of a government. They went by the modern auditorium built beneath the ancient church spires with gilded onion domes. Nixon noted how old and new were fitted together behind the Kremlin walls. He paused a moment In the discussion to take another look at the monstrous, potbellied Czar Cannon that still stands as a reminder of old glories-and repressions...
...Israeli fort on Tel Shams commands a broad valley that runs eastward toward Damascus. From the hills, when the morning haze lifts, strong glasses bring the capital into view. In the past, Israeli cannon around Tel Shams had shattered Damascus windowpanes. But now, turning their backs on Syria, the last Israeli troops were ready to head west out of the territory they had seized in October's costly counteroffensive...
...color is hardly color at all - a muddy brownish gray, smeared on the canvas with what seems to have been great effort, layer over in tractable layer. The fruit appeals to nothing but the sense of sight. It is inedible, untouchably distant, dense and gray as a little cannon ball, and so irreducible in its compactness that it could no longer be the object of appetite...
Though the FBI claims that its "SWP Disruption Program" was terminated in 1969, attorneys for the SWP and YSA have already identified and documented 141 cases of FBI visits to plaintiffs since the supposed cutoff. And in 1972, a wiretap was found on the home phone of James P. Cannon, chairman emeritus of the SWP. Cannon was 80 at the time...