Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also indicated by hand signals that he was turning west in the direction of Cairo. When he picked up speed and refused to land, the Israelis said, the Phantoms first fired in front of him, then at his wingtips, and only then at the plane itself. Crippled by their cannon, the 727 made a bad wheels-up landing on the Sinai sand. It hit, bounced and burst into flames. "He did a fairly poor job of it," said one of the Phantom pilots...
...randy private detective from Brooklyn named McCoy, who is hired by a rich businessman to recover some stolen diamonds. The whole business is pretty shady, and McCoy gets roughed up or punched out in every scene where he is not bantering with or bedding a society type (Dyan Cannon) from Sutton Place. The plot makes no sense, although it tries. It all ends with one of those tenuous solutions that raise more questions than they actually answer...
...return to the era of "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the apex of House rule, is a reckless and ridiculous idea...
...Israeli broadcasts or, more often, by stories passed along on the Soviet Jewish grapevine. Laments a young mother of two: "They said you didn't buy eggs in Israel. They simply lay about in the streets." Others are convinced that they had been lured to Israel as cannon fodder for its wars. "It's the fault of the American Jewish millionaires," says Tbilisi Shopkeeper Joseph Mamishva-lov. "They pay their money but want us to bear the brunt. A boil is good on somebody else's body...
...unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said that although he may have a beating heart and a functioning brain and be biologically human, the black man was not a legal person." More mildly, Bishop William Cannon of the United Methodist Church warned: "If this leads to promiscuity and to taking the creation of life lightly, then it is a step backward...