Word: cannonism
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...depicts life in Communist countries, shows people dying in prison, idle factories, cannon ready to fire, churches demolished, and people in slave camps. The sharpest touch: a mask of Rivera peering from behind a dollar-sign totem pole...
Asia is not afraid we will use it as cannon fodder in our drive to contain communism. Owen Lattimore told over 600 listeners at the China seminar of the All College Conference last Saturday. It fears more that the West will try to reestablish colonialism there...
Upon completion of either program, students receive commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Contrary to rumor, Elder declared, newly commissioned Second Lieutenants do not automatically become "cannon fodder." He revealed that a recent survey of the latest Officer Candidate Class showed that of 515 duty assignments, only 116 were sent to replacement centers in California, the others receiving stateside billets or admission to specialist schools...
Groundman's Answer. The critics of atomic artillery, who have battled Collins for the past two years over his expensive A-cannon project, hold that the A-cannon can do nothing that an airplane can't do by dropping a tactical atomic bomb. Collins answers back with a seasoned groundman's vehemence. In bad weather, airplanes just can't perform tactical missions within the cramped confines of the battlefield. And even in good weather, one miscalculation by an atomic bombardier could panic a whole division on his own side...
Collins and his artillery experts admit that the A-cannon is just an interim weapon. Their long-range plans revolve around ground-to-ground guided missiles, another Army development project. These are still too inaccurate for any kind of close-in use. But when the aim is perfected, the missiles will doubtless outdate atomic artillery because they will exceed artillery's hitting power, and exceed its reach as well...