Word: cannonism
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Campaigning techniques at Boston area schools range from traditional postering and speechmaking tactics to zanier projects like the cannon-painting war that takes place at Tufts...
Every election year, political groups at the school's Medford campus try to best each other in painting political slogans on a replica of the U.S.S. Constitution's cannon, said Eunice E. Kim, chairman of the Tufts Republican Club. "We hope to be the one who gets [the cannon] last," Kim said. She added that the Republicans plan to post a guard at the cannon for about five hours on election night to prevent the Democrats from winning the game...
While hundreds of small drums tapped footsteps and heartbeats, and the giant Dragon Drum (arriving by riverboat) beat cannon shots and thunderclaps, the children of South Korea danced a delightful welcome for nearly 10,000 sportsmen from 160 countries on parade. Someone thought of limiting the marchers in the interest of time, but the athletes screamed. "You're not in the Olympics if you don't march," said the U.S. hurdler Edwin Moses, who smiled sadly when the first impulse of the American team was to threaten a boycott of the opening scene. Boycott isn't usually an athlete...
According to Baker Aide James Cannon, who wrote the memo, some aides had taken to signing Reagan's initials on official documents because he was so out of touch. But Cannon says that when he and Baker observed the President at their first meeting together, he was back in top form. Cannon told TIME he made his recommendation after talking to 15 to 20 White House aides, who convinced him that Reagan's short days and heavy delegation of responsibility had become a serious problem. Reagan, relaxing at a White House picnic, said, "There isn't an iota of truth...
Dashing, racing, hurdling, hurtling, heaving cannon balls, slinging spears -- long jumping on the side -- Joyner-Kersee has at last reached the station her grandmother foretold 26 years ago in naming her after a First Lady of the U.S. Momentarily, Jacqueline means to be the First Lady of the world, not only in the heptathlon and the Olympics but in women's athletics entirely...