Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for the dead, there was little sleep. Methodically, all day long, the Communists walked 82-mm. mortar shells, five and six at a time, back and forth across the paratroopers' perimeter. U.S. air and artillery blasted back. Waves of screaming jets swept over, searing and shearing the hilltop bunkers with fragmentation bombs, 750-lb. explosives and napalm canisters. The Communists were so securely shielded that they could be heard firing back even as the jets came in on them. When a group of troopers rushed a bunker and dropped eight grenades inside, a Communist appeared at its mouth...
After waiting three months, the Gens brothers decided to go it alone- but responsibly. First, they studied detailed exhibits of mining techniques displayed at Munich's German Museum. Back in Cologne, they bought mortar and scrounged bricks from construction sites, then placed a sand-covered ceiling over the old entrance of their excavation - to make it appear that they had filled it in. Entering the excavation through a secret door they built through the back of a cupboard, they dug farther, shoring up their excavations with brick columns and meticulously uncovering stone after stone-some of them weighing...
...garrison have already been evacuated by ship and plane, most to British bases in Bahrain or Masqat and Oman; the rest will be gone by the middle of next week. Because terrorist units operating from Aden's seething Crater district have been lobbing mortar shells on the port and the city's Khormaksar airbase as a farewell gesture, the British have had to post two regiments in the district simply to protect their rear...
...LITTLE FOXES. An admirable Lincoln Center revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together with the mortar of plot. Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Richard Dysart and Margaret Leighton are expertly guided by Director Mike Nichols through gilt-edged performances as members of a family afflicted with a vulpine itch for plunder in the turn-of-the-century South...
...Second Republic, Viet Nam's first elected government in six years. The most impressive fact about the inauguration was that the new government was able to hold two days of open festivities, ceremonies and parades without any significant interference from the Viet Cong beyond a few mortar shells that fell into the palace garden...