Word: cannonism
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Schilling wasn't the only Lazarus in the Red Sox resurrection. Loose-cannon center fielder Johnny Damon, whose beard and long hair made him look like Jesus--or Charles Manson--was an impotent lead-off man for most of the series. He trimmed his locks and hit a grand-slam homer in the last game. The Red Sox pitchers, pounded silly in a 19-8 loss in Game 3, reclaimed their poise and waved off exhaustion to surrender only 13 runs in the last four...
Sweating it out in streets full of smoke and the odor of cordite, Purdy and his troops found cover in firing positions littered with flesh from insurgents blown apart by U.S. cannon fire from an armored vehicle. Pinned down by snipers, the men were trapped alongside the corpses, battling a stench that grew stronger as the morning wore on and the temperature climbed. When at last the platoon could move, it could do so only under the cover of chattering guns and multicolored smoke grenades. By then, the rebels that the platoon was fighting had simply melted away. "This enemy...
...have been--but for both sides. The scene in Samarra was similar to those anywhere in Iraq in which soldiers have had to shoot into cities. In one intersection, the body of a rebel lay in pieces, torn apart by 25-mm cannon fire, while a mother hurried by holding her toddler by the hand. The child stared at the remains. At one point, a group of Purdy's men tumbled into an Iraqi house seeking safety and found themselves facing a woman with her arms around five children. Figuring that the soldiers would not harm her family, she offered...
...loose their RPGs. Women hurled potatoes onto the street like grenades, duping the Iraqi soldiers into diving to the ground, while male insurgents unloaded machine-gun fire or threw real grenades. During three hours of fighting, U.S. forces finally unleashed high-explosive rounds from a 25-mm cannon, obliterating the two-man RPG teams, to quiet the boulevard. Two Iraqi guardsmen were killed, and U.S. commanders say their troops killed dozens of insurgents in the fire fight. But the attacks haven't subsided. "[The insurgents are] not intimidated," says Staff Sergeant Wilbert Tynes. "You've actually got to wipe them...
...overlooking Seoul's Han River. It would be wrong, though, to underestimate Kim, who has become a near legend in Seoul for the turnaround he engineered at LG's appliance business. When he took over in 1996, LG was making washing machines and refrigerators that seemed little more than cannon fodder for low-cost Chinese companies like Haier. Kim sliced costs by moving production of low-end products to China. He proved there is room for innovation in basic white goods, introducing, for example, appliances like air conditioners that can be controlled from the Internet. The result: sales reached...