Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another story concerns the foreman at a construction site who is mixing his mortar by hand although a new mechanical mixer is available. When an American technician asks why the mixer is not used, the foreman replies proudly: "I am one day ahead of schedule now, so why bother with the machine?" Moral: Asians have no sense of urgency...
Pulpit Plugs. Greatest test of Daley's strength was another, more ambitious bond issue for $195 million to finance such brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...
...noted another, "will have to cut ration below 500 grams. The word tonight is that there is no rice stored at the next two stations." And once Giap's men arrive, he must keep them supplied by the same tortuous, 800-mile route. Every pair of 81-mm. mortar rounds fired by Giap's men in the South represents a three-month hike down the trail...
...down the dark street, from both sides, intense automatic fire raged. Five of us dived for cover into one courtyard, the others into an adjoining one. Outside in the street, a tremendous explosion resounded-either an M-79 grenade or a 60-mm. mortar shell. Three of the other newsmen, peering out a door, were wounded by blast fragments. UPI photographer Steve Van Meter asked an old man in a nearby building for some mosquito netting to bandage our wounded. The man shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside...
...immediacy of Nhat Hanh's experiences in the war turned political cliches into moving arguments for stopping the war: "I was in a village outside of Saigon after the Viet Cong mortar attack on a U.S. airbase. Six Viet Cong passed through the village and retreated into the jungle. Then the bombing began. Many houses were knocked down and innocent people killed; a piece of rocket fell only a meter from...