Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatched almost a year ago. On Oct. 1, Red China's National Day, when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien...
...fell back under U.N. napalm and artillery, then they turned, loosed a fierce artillery barrage, the heaviest since April. Some 500 shells dropped on U.N. positions at the rate of two a minute. But the U.N. troops held. Next night there was artillery again and 200 rounds of heavy mortar fire. Under cover of the artillery, the Reds sent small infantry forces forward. It looked as if the Reds were trying to soup up their act at the truce table with menacing offstage noises...
...allies ran into cleverly-laid minefields covered by accurate mortar fire, tank traps dug across the roads, determined counterattacks. Thousands of Chinese filtered back into the top of the lost "iron triangle" which they had left two weeks before. There were bloody clashes. One piece of high ground there changed hands five times in one day. U.N. infantrymen charging with fixed bayonets were met by bayonet-wielding Chinese. On the eastern front, the Reds were firing deadly artillery barrages, mostly at night. Some Eighth Army officers expected a Chinese offensive on June 25, the anniversary...
Since the North Koreans' Russian-made T-34 tank disappeared from the battle, allied armor in Korea has had nothing much to contend with except mortar and small-arms fire. U.N. armored columns thrust boldly into enemy territory, without the infantry screens which-according to the book-are needed to put hostile antitank gunners out of action. Early this month, a U.S. tank force probing toward the Reds' "iron triangle" suddenly ran into killing antitank fire. Ordnance officers quickly identified the source: Russia's highly effective 57-mm. antitank...
Last week Bed Check was making a nuisance of himself again. Every night he came wheezing and clanking down from his North Korean hideout and bombed U.N. positions with 44-lb. mortar shells, apparently chucked over the side. For good measure, his rear-seat man did a bit of strafing with a burp gun. For two successive nights and twice each night, Bed Check attacked a U.S. airbase at Seoul. No one chuckled more heartily at the Air Force's embarrassment than U.S. foot-sloggers. They pointed gleefully to hurriedly dug foxholes around Air Force installations, howled when...