Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from its April 28 arrival on El Salvador's Pacific coast. The weapons, he said, were moved north by backpack and mule train up to the provincial capital of San Miguel. After a battle on May 6, Salvadoran government troops found Bulgarian-made ammunition and a North Vietnamese mortar sight that Gorman said "probably" arrived in the April 28 shipment. Then Gorman displayed a map discovered at a guerrilla campsite on May 25. The crude chart showed "safe routes" nearly identical to those that Gorman had earlier outlined...
...then there will be a day when the light comes in on a bright, sharp slant-clarity an artist lives for. Even drunks, then, can see the mortar between the bricks-and the place appeals and no longer seems absurd. An absolutely azure sky set off by a single cloud looking as if it were shot up there from a pastry chefs icing gun, that kind of a day. And everywhere houses cling to the cliffsides like cockleburs. Jade plants, looking like so many butter beans on a stick, grow high and thick out here, form hedges, give privacy. (Back...
...single Land Rover. More than half the 8,000 members of the Civil Guard are traffic policemen, who until recently wielded no instrument more deadly than a screwdriver (for prying license plates off illegally parked cars). Costa Rica's most powerful weapon is the 81-mm mortar, but there are only six of those in the whole country; and their ammunition, bought 30 years ago, no longer explodes...
Frustrated by the inconveniences wrought by their House renovations, a group of Dunster House seniors recently spearheaded a joke campaign to "put the mortar back in mortarboard." They hung a sign-up sheet in their dining hall asking how many classmates would be willing to go through Commencemment exercises sporting hardhats. About 40 volunteered. If you had to pick one symbol for the Class of 1984's four-year stay in Cambridge, it would have to be a hard...
...latest offensive began in early April when, according to the Vietnamese, the Chinese fired 40,000 artillery, mortar and rocket rounds at more than 100 targets across the border. In response, say the Vietnamese, they shelled the "Chinese land-grabbers." Without either confirming or denying that they provoked the latest fighting, Peking accused the Vietnamese of firing 10,000 rounds at "densely populated Chinese villages and towns in Yunnan and Guangxi." The Chinese claim Vietnamese infantry units have crossed the border in 90 places to lay land mines and plunder local settlements. Viet Nam recently showed off two Chinese prisoners...