Word: grapeshot
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...general subject of physical violence and its prevention," complains Clinical Psychiatrist Wertham, 71, in the opening pages of this profoundly indignant inquiry into man's inhumanity to man. A Sign for Cain aims at filling the gap. It tamps aphorism, anecdote and erudition into stinging whiffs of grapeshot that splay across the whole range of contemporary thought and life. Wertham's thesis is that no murder, no rape, no senseless act of destruction is ever an iso lated, spontaneous event even when it is the product of a clearly psychotic mind. Always it "is linked by a thousand...
...majestic instant in oils, the deadly carnage by grapeshot and musketry is stilled, and the course of history is reversed by a great man. Last week one of the finest U.S. battle tableaux, unseen for 75 years, went on view at the University of California's Berkeley campus...
Such pre-game gamesmanship recalled the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who pumped batting-practice home runs into the stands like grapeshot before the first World Series game of 1932. Demoralized by the sight, the goggle-eyed Chicago Cubs faded in four straight games. Similarly unnerved by news about the Sooners, the overrated Panthers never got started...
...Louisville, a segregationist composed a battle hymn: "Stand firmly by your cannon/Let ball and grapeshot fly/And trust in God and Faubus/But keep your powder dry." In Alabama four potential candidates for governor set a political pattern for the South, each desperately trying to outdo the others in praise of Faubus. One wired Faubus his congratulations. Another promised to back Faubus "at all costs." A third offered to go to jail to prevent integration. The fourth topped them all: he was willing to die for segregation...
They met soon after dawn Oct. 20, 1805. A "series of single combats of the most bloody ferocity," the battle reached its peak when ship jammed against ship, exchanging furious broadsides and grapeshot at point-blank range, with boarding parties hanging massed along the bulwark netting. The rigging of the French ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased...