Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders' lines and were massing for a new attack. Suddenly a blank mortar shell exploded over the invaders' heads with a roar and a burst of smoke. The umpires stunned the Aggressors with a terse ruling: 1,600 of their men had just been put out of action; the exploding shell symbolized a devastating hit by a revolutionary new weapon, atomic artillery...
...cream of U.S. military manpower-burrowed dismally into the Korean snow and mud, to wait for they knew not what. On the other side, 900,000 of the enemy did the same. Occasionally, on either side, a man died-a bullet in the brain, a mutilating date with a mortar shell, a ride to earth in a jetpropelled funeral pyre. But the dying settled nothing...
...year-old war. To the west of Hoa Binh, Viet Minh hacked out new roads in the jungle. A human chain of 50,000 Chinese moved 4,000 tons of war material south to the Communist forces. Included, according to French reports: 10 million Chinese-made cartridges, 100,000 mortar shells, 100,000 hand grenades. Russian-built trucks hauled in heavy cannon; Chinese "military advisers" stiffened Viet Minh's 45,000 regulars...
Today he "paints" with thick pastes, viscous mixtures of zinc oxide and heavy varnish. Sometimes he adds sand to make a kind of mortar, applies it with large, dull putty knives. The soft colors he uses -rose, brown, dull reds and yellow-spread erratically as his "empasto" heaves into unexpected shapes and dries...
...Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...