Word: mortared
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...families waiting outside the Edwin Andrews Military Air Base in the city. The explosion killed two people and injured 21. Police are yet to finalize their investigation into the source of the blast but Abu Sayyaf operatives are the prime suspects despite the bomb containing TNT - not the normal mortar rounds used in previous Abu Sayyaf bombings. Colonel Coultrup suspects such operations were "confidence runs" designed to train raw recruits for larger missions...
...hear graduates shaking their mortar-boarded heads in unison and maintaining that what I’ve said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...seeing a full frontal and rear assault," a peacekeeper screamed into his radio as white U.N. helicopters dropped down into their base in the town and whisked civilians and other aid workers out. Mortar, artillery and rocket exchanges flattened much of the market town over the next few days. As 60,000 civilians fled into the bush, others darted into their mud huts to retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said...
...more exceptional in their willingness to bet big on property. Mortgage debt as a percentage of the country's disposable income stood at 125% in 2006, compared to 103% in the U.S. and 71% in Germany. One reason is that British homeowners came to fervently believe that bricks and mortar almost inevitably reward investors with a juicy return. After all, the FTSE 100 share index of Britain's biggest firms rose just 2.7% in the 10 years to May, while the average house price shot up 178%, according to Nationwide. That increase produced "a massive reservoir of equity," says Lowe...
...speakers. A parachute, rescued from an airdrop of food supplies and stretched over a frame of scavenged bamboo provides welcome shade in the 42-degree centigrade heat. Perched on a ledge overlooking a curve in the Helmand River, Lance Corporal Glenn McAllister whittles sturdy mugs out of green plastic mortar round cases. If it weren't for the guns, the occasional boom of an outgoing mortar round, and the Taliban forces surrounding Zeebrugge, the setting would almost seem like a beachside bar - without the beer. "All we need now is some sand," muses Collins. "Maybe we should push down...