Word: cannonism
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...months as commander of the U.N. peace force in Bosnia, French General Philippe Morillon earned a maverick reputation. He struck observers as unpredictable, impulsive, eccentric; one senior U.N. official called him "a loose cannon" in constant need of being "reined in." He held strange formal dinners while Serbian shells fell on Sarajevo: stories of waiters in tails serving guests in white gloves and full dress uniforms scandalized the city. No one thought he was inclined toward heroics until last week, when he surprised his colleagues, and perhaps himself. He risked his life, his honor and the U.N.'s dwindling credibility...
...about a year scrounging up financial backing to launch a radically new idea in journalism: a weekly newsmagazine that aimed to summarize world events and organize them in pithy style. Now editors Luce and Hadden were putting to press the first issue of TIME, with House Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon on the cover. "It wasn't bad at all," Luce wrote later. "In fact, it was quite good. Somehow it all held together -- it made sense, it was interesting...
Exciting Moments right after Harvard sophomore Steve Martins fired a cannon ball in the top left corner of the net Monday to tie the score in the first period, Boston University looked ready to pounce...
...seemed right there that Harvard was destined for another Beanpot blowout. But the Crimson transmogrified from its feline self into a jungle cat just minutes later, with BU's Stephen Foster out for roughing. Martins unloaded a cannon shot into the high left corner of the net at 13:14, just seconds into the power-play, to tie the game...
HELICOPTER GUNSHIP ATTACKS, GROUND RAIDS, more casualties -- the news from Somalia increasingly resembles reports from a war zone. To enforce a cease- fire between rival warlords, four rocket- and cannon-firing U.S. Cobra choppers teamed up with Belgian paratroopers to rout forces advancing on the southern port of Kismayu; reports had eight Somalis killed and about 40 wounded. On Saturday at dusk, 700 U.S. troops backed by helicopters swept into the crossroads town of Afgoi to flush out bandit gangs that have been ambushing supplies en route to the famine belt. Meanwhile, in Mogadishu, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Anthony Botello...