Word: grapeshot
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...future of détente were America's European allies, and even some U.S. Soviet specialists. West Germany's Schmidt is bringing Carter a message of concern informally agreed to by the leaders of all nine Common Market countries; they are urging Carter to moderate his grapeshot approach to human rights...
...have if you're having only one. The authors have rifled the diaries, journals, letters and reports of hundreds of participants and woven them into a totally absorbing, seamless war narrative that a novelist might envy. The voices range from Joseph Plumb Martin, an irrepressible private ("The grapeshot and langrage flew merrily") to General Washington, who was often prey to justifiable private gloom. (All might be well, he reflected in 1776, if his soldiers "would behave with tolerable resolution. But experience, to my extreme affliction, has convinced me that this is rather to be wished than expected...
About Heroes. One fiction that the show destroys is the lingering idea that revolutions in politics produce revolutionary art styles. The notion that the events of 1789 filled the Salon with blood, grapeshot and equality is a myth. As the catalogue reminds us, "It is generally agreed that the Revolution did not seriously affect the development of French painting." Thus when it came, the successful portraitists-most of whom, like the gifted Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, were women-simply turned from painting the court to recording the features of eminences like Robespierre and Talleyrand...
Cato, a literal-minded constitutionalist, lets fly with oratorical grapeshot: "If New Publius is saying that once the Federal Government determines that a problem-any problem-exists and decides that something should be done about it, the States have the first option to take action and if they refuse the Federal Government may rightly act on its own-if this be his argument, then not only is it objectionable, it is revolutionary. Power implies the right to say No and make it stick, it includes the right of a State to decide for itself whether a 'problem' exists...
...howitzers, others ran from bunker to bunker, tossing in grenades and shooting survivors. Gradually, the remaining defenders pulled back around the two 105s still in U.S. hands. The guns were cranked down to point-blank range; high-explosive shells, white phosphorus and "beehives," the deadly modern version of grapeshot, were fired at the enemy. Helicoptered reinforcements soon arrived to reclaim the hill with its burden of heavy casualties, including 117 enemy dead...