Word: cannonism
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...week he had to apologize to Dole for leaking the details of the nominee's much awaited foreign-policy speech on the eve of its Thursday delivery, undercutting the public-relations drama of Dole's announcement that he supported extension of most-favored-nation trading status for China. "Loose cannon," growled a Dole official...
...Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways," he once told GQ magazine. "When I die I'll go immediately...
DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...
...fund does work for some, like Sarita N. Cannon '98. "I probably wouldn't be able to take lessons without it," the singer says...
...three student members are Courtney E. Cannon '97 of Kirkland House, Mary E. Ford '96-'97 of Dunster House and Robert B. Wolinsky '97 of Cabot House...