Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat, the U.S. artillery moved its 175-mm. "Long Toms" up to Gio Linh, two miles south of the DMZ, and began firing their 147-pounders at Red stockpiles and antiaircraft batteries as far as 20 miles away. Firing back, the Communists peppered the Long Tom positions with 655 mortar rounds in four attacks. They caused only light damage...
...construction compared with one. A fleet of 472 supply ships plies the route to South Viet Nam, and an average of 30 cargo planes arrives daily. By late 1966, according to Mc-Namara, the U.S. and its allies achieved a stupendous rate of fire: 1,700,000 artillery and mortar rounds and 100 million small-arms bullets per month...
...Year ran the mile in 3:51.3, and died under mortar fire at An Lao. He got a B-minus in Physics I, earned a Fulbright scholarship, filmed a documentary in a Manhattan ghetto, and guided Gemini rendezvous in space. He earns $76 a week with Operation Head Start in Philadelphia, picks up $10,800 a year as a metallurgical engineer at Ford, and farms 600 acres of Dakota wheat land. He has a lightning-fast left jab, a rifling right arm, and reads medieval metaphysicians. He campaigned for Reagan, booed George Wallace, and fought for racial integration...
...Malley, 23, who as a Marine Corps corporal in Viet Nam was severely wounded by enemy mortar fire, yet succeeded in evacuating what remained of his platoon and killing eight V.C.s...
...Enemies. Understandably, angry Lebanese have been anxious to know how it all happened, and by last week it was possible to piece together, with the mortar of some conjecture, the pattern of failure. Intra's power had made for the bank and its chairman, Yusif Bedas, some powerful enemies. And in a series of separate acts that built a devastating chain, they broke the bank...