Word: cannonism
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...says he controls almost 30,000 men but is quick to concede that only one in three has a firearm. His artillery consists of a few dozen mortars and 75 mm. cannon, but he has almost no ammunition. "We have done no plundering," he said. "We have really been fighting Communists." The general admits that his people levy "dues on visiting businessmen," but these are opium smugglers, he says offhandedly, and they expect...
Flick turned to France and quickly landed a buyer: the giant De Wendel steel company, which has, in the past, built French (and German) cannon. Unable to feed their blast furnaces with scarce and low-quality French coke, De Wendel and eight associates needed a more reliable "coal-base" for their steel mills. They bought out Flick, thereby making sure of 5,500,000 tons of Ruhr coal a year, about 5% of West Germany's total output...
...crack shot with a pistol, and she rode to hounds like a hussar. Horses were in the family, for her Irish father was hard-riding Tommy Gonne of Donnybrook, a colonel in the British army. She had been born (of an English mother, who died in her childhood) within cannon shot of Aldershot, and privately educated in France by a governess with Republican views. At 16, she was head of her father's household in Dublin, where he was Assistant Adjutant General. She was presented in 1881 at the viceregal court, and she "danced with the Duke of Clarence...
Most of the nation's sportswriters, before the bout, had called the fight an obvious mismatch. New York Post Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon put part of the blame on the NBC network: "The fight racket is now television's responsibility. It rs no longer an arena sport but a family divertissement. The networks should decide what their cameras gaze upon...
...Cannon & Coffee. His most important experiment: working with a cannon-boring machine, he established the equivalence of heat and work, demolishing the long-accepted "caloric" theory. In verbose essays, Rumford also discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...