Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered his followers not to cash OAS checks for back government pay, refused to place the cable and banking facilities in his area under OAS auspices. Throughout the week, snipers pecked away from the rebel zone, adding one more wounded to the list of 139 U.S. casualties, and several mortar shells, fired probably by Imbert's troops, hit rebel territory, killing at least two people...
Walce Up. The result was the formation of a sorely needed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City-otherwise known as the C.C.C. movement, Cindy's Culture Crusade. Cindy & Co. agreed that the best way to get the show on the road was not to wage a "brick-and-mortar fund drive" but "to do something great with people." For its first effort, the foundation daringly chose to present the U.S. premiere of Handel's 241-year-old opera, Julius Caesar, a convoluted tale of love and intrigue in old Egypt, embellished with a floridly beautiful score...
...Mortar and howitzer shells crunched into military compounds, while Viet Cong riflemen, clad only in khaki shorts, swept into the heart of the village. Setting up machine guns and 57-mm. recoilless rifles on an open helicopter pad, they slashed at the barracks, mess halls and headquarters of the Songbe garrison. Said one American survivor: "It looked like the Fourth of July." Five Communists slipped through the perimeter beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded...
...troops at the national cemetery. Snipers killed a marine near the Hotel Embajador, on the border of the supposedly safe International Zone; a paratroop lieutenant was killed and seven men were wounded in a vicious north-south crossfire near the supply corridor. The rebels even managed to whomp two mortar rounds smack into the front yard of Marine headquarters...
...material that could be impregnated with color throughout, rather than simply receive a surface glaze. And in cauk, a form of barium sulphate, Josiah found what he wanted. Jasper ware grew so popular that the English used it for shoebuckles, chessmen, perfume vials, bell pulls, architectural ornaments, even a mortar and pestle. Most famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase, after a Greek vase supposedly made in Alexandria in 50 A.D. Last year a rare slate-blue Portland vase sold at auction for $8,600. Josiah would...