Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand grenades and mortar shells brought home by World War II veterans are not the only souvenirs which sometimes blow up later. Sergeant Wilson Posie Noles, an Air Force ground crewman from 1942 to 1945, found that microscopic, disease-causing organisms, unknowingly picked up, can behave the same...
...sell & leaseback" deal was doubly advantageous. Yale would get a fairly sure tax-exempt income of 5.3% on its investment. Macy's would get its $4,500,000 out of dead brick & mortar into lively working capital, still have the use of the building. Since the rent is taxexempt, it is probably lower than Macy's would have to pay to a taxpaying owner...
...Photographer Fineberg out on a routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...
...principal speaker, and sneaks out in the middle of the meeting. Of late years, Perelman has done little more than sift the ashes of his satire (at considerably more than 30? an hour). Listen to the Mocking Bird contains a heap of clinkers, but enough live coals (Mortar and Pestle, and some book reviews) to keep Perelmaniacs hopping...
Victory was not to be that easy, for a new front had opened in the south. Garrisons on the Argentine frontier went over to the insurgents. In place of the mortar shells and grenades they had dropped in their first bombing raids on the capital, the rebels now had genuine aerial bombs to dump through the cargo hatches of their U.S.-made transport planes...