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In response to Richard Lederer's “Gunning for the English Language” [XV, 1], Mr. Charles Kluth, Baltimore, points out that the difference between the coefficients of expansion of iron and brass—a mere 1/64th inch—would be insufficient to cause the (cannon) balls to be dislodged from a brass “monkey” and survive as a justification for the origin of cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey .
This led to the association of rapid acceleration with “gunning,” and to give it the gun was soon extended to automobiles, speedboats, and objects and matters nonmechanical.
The misfortune of Coz's career may be that he is gunning for journalistic respectability at a time when journalistic respectability doesn't pay.
The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.
The former adversaries have formed "a pact of mutually assured ambition," with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker.