Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adviser was sent to Kampot when American officials in Cambodia decided that the situation there was becoming critical for the Lon Nol troops. In the past month, insurgent Khmer Rouge troops have moved within one mile of the city and captured its water supply and Cambodia's only cement factory. The population of the city has dropped from 50,000 to less than 20,000 in that time and almost all private shops and businesses have closed...
...secret air raids on neutral Laos in 1966. One mother bomb contains 600 to 700 guavas, each of which releases high-speed steel pellets upon explosion, as well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode some bomblets before they hit the earth so as to kill those sheltered in trenches; other bomblets...
...wharf was quiet and empty, occupied by gulls. An Egyptian cargo ship, that had been unloading cement when war overtook the port, was still surrounded by bags of cement, opened and untouched. A smaller ship lay sunk near by, its coffee cargo ruined. One of eight cranes had been hit by a shell, but the others were undamaged. The Israelis have promised that they will not touch any of the civilian equipment before withdrawing...
Beame has not had much better luck in filling one of his city's three deputy mayor posts. During his campaign, Beame repeatedly noted that the forces holding New York's ethnic and religious groups together were far stronger than those dividing them. To add more cement, he promised to name a black-the first to hold so high a post-as deputy mayor for planning. Shortly after his election, Beame selected David N. Dinkins, 46, a Harlem lawyer who had served with distinction as the city's election board president in 1972-73. Five weeks later...
...meantime, spending by consumers and businessmen continued strong. Many industries could not keep pace with demand because plants making such basic materials as steel, cement and paper were strained to capacity. Shortages developed that pushed up prices even more. The problem was compounded by scarcities of such raw materials as wheat, lumber and cotton, for which the booming economies of Europe and Japan were also competing...