Word: cannonism
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...plot of public ground reeks of history like the Cambridge Common. On the very turf where couples romp in the spring, where amateur baseballers and skaters amuse themselves, George Washington took command of the first American army in 1775. But for a few rusty cannon, two monuments, and a plaque, however, the Common is hardly a symbol of patriotism. Yet scholars have tried to build these memorial remains into a glorious tradition which ignores the pageantry of blood and rum spilled on the Common's scraggy swade...
Even more ludicrous is the controversy over the three cannons which squate in the Common. No one can agree whether they were captured and presented by General Knox in the siege of Boston or not. But nobody has denied that Francis C. Barlow '55, discharged at least one of them in the opening blows of the Civil War. In the confusion and excitement, one cannon ball was lodged in a brick foundation on Brattle...
...thunderous climax of Tchaikovsky's Festival Overture, 1812, cannon (or cannon sound effects) have been booming forth for 70 years. In Rochester last week, the gunfire brought down some trophies. As the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reached the firing point, and cannon roared offstage, the audience in Eastman Theater was astonished to see a cloud of duck feathers float down from the ceiling. The orchestra people hastened to explain that it was no part of the program. Their best guess: "Pranksters who knew music and the catwalks...
...Horse collars and Civil War cannon balls are still carried on Army inventories...
...enemy has large numbers of big, radar-directed AA. guns, 88-or 85-mm. (and possibly a few long-range 120s or 155s; U.S. Sabre jets have occasionally reported flak bursts above 30,000 ft.). He also has an even larger quantity of smaller guns, 37-and 20-mm. cannon and 12.7-mm. heavy machine guns. And he has radar-directed searchlights, which can hold a night-flying U.N. plane transfixed. The U.N. is using newfangled electronic jamming against the enemy radar on the big guns, but the fact is that most U.N. planes lost to ground fire are downed...