Word: cannonism
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...Harvard winners were Christy D. Cannon '92, Jeffrey S. Glueck '91, Matthew R. McBrady '92, Karen R. Rabin '91, Kurt G. Strovink '92 and Crimson President Rebecca L. Walkowitz...
...days, until January 1944. On the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, / Leningrad's situation was even more desperate than the capital's. While the Germans outside Moscow were nearly exhausted by three unsuccessful attempts to take the city, Leningrad was not only being lashed by cannon fire and air raids but was also slowly being starved. Hitler had given orders that the city be completely eradicated after its surrender so that German occupying forces would not have to worry about supplying its civilian population...
...mother, cast off from Portsmouth quay and steamed toward the flotilla. It was an awesome sight: 165 British ships of the line, plus vessels from 14 other nations including the U.S. and Japan. At a signal, seamen scurried to attention on decks and yardarms, and the warships boomed out cannon salutes as the yacht passed by. For three hours that evening, in a dazzling display of modern technology, every ship was outlined against the somber sky by hundreds of electric lights. It was, wrote a stunned British reporter, "a fairy fleet festooned with chains of gold...
...shoot the monkey' demonstration of gravity with a cannon and a Curious George also wins rave reviews, says Rueckner. In this one, George is dropped from his high perch at the same time that a cannon, aimed right at him, is fired. Gravity eventually does poor George in, bringing the cannon ball down just enough to still...
...continued to press for a couple of minutes, but Harvard quickly regained its poise. Terriers' mistakes led to a series of Harvard corners. Giving Harvard corner opportunities late in the game is akin to committing suicide. On the second corner play, Kristen Fowler blasted her trademark cannon through an opening between a motionless goalie and defender...