Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman from Sanandaj: "At Ghanzeh Hospital a man sat holding the severed head of his three-year-old daughter, who along with her four brothers and sisters was killed when a mortar round dropped into the yard where they were playing. As doctors worked in a makeshift operating room on the floor of the hospital corridor, flights of helicopters fluttered overhead, ferrying army reinforcements to the garrison from Kermanshah, an hour to the south. The fighting took a vicious turn the next day when the army moved tanks to the city center. Kurdish guerrillas dashed from...
...Saturday, mortar shells descended near Lang Son, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent on the scene. To the north, heavy artillery shells could be heard every ten to 30 seconds. "Chinese troops have launched a general attack, all the frontier posts are being shelled by heavy artillery," a Vietnamese provincial official announced. "Bloody fighting is taking place, human casualties are certainly heavy." Said a wounded 18-year-old Vietnamese soldier named Trien Van Mien, who staggered into town and fell in the road: "The Chinese are close by, they are everywhere...
Despite reservations about the national economy and the appeal of a drive that doesn't involve much "bricks and mortar," administrators seem sure the drive will go ahead as planned and are optimistic about its chances for success. Since last fall, College Fund volunteers have been screening potential contributors across the country to gauge how much money might be available and to find out whether alumni might resist a capital drive right now. By next fall about 3000 alumni will have gotten the once-over; and so far, the prospects look good...
...oldest foundations are the same holes rammed everywhere in America by swelling population, the spread of wealth, racial change, and an active central Government. Round every hole, the citizens of Plains see what we all see-the quick dissolution of ancient ties of blood, faith and money: the primal mortar of society...
...older mortar is visible, the oldest hope anywhere and still a strong refreshment. Two minutes by car in any direction from the center of town will put you in the fields and woods of Sumter County. So I prowled for hours on the nearly empty roads-bare flats of resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense...