Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dong, 400 miles north of Saigon. At 2:25 a.m. on July 6, a Viet Cong battalion launched a full-scale surprise attack. In the course of the five-hour battle, DonIon seemed to be everywhere, firing and hurling hand grenades under a hail of enemy bullets and mortar shells. He shot down a three-man Viet Cong demolition team threatening the main gate of the defense compound. He dragged urgently needed ammunition across open areas to gun positions. When he discovered a wounded gun crew, he stayed behind to cover their withdrawal. Donlon himself was wounded four times...
...Immediately to its left were the bubbling springs that form the headwaters of the River Dan. A few feet to its right, a white plastic ribbon marked the Syrian border. From the grey stone hills beyond, two shots rang out, and suddenly the whole area erupted into battle. Syrian mortar shells fell on three Israeli villages; Israeli jets bombed two Syrian settlements. Altogether, 10 people were killed and 37 wounded...
...greatest U.S. military loss occurred just two weeks ago when Viet Cong mortar fire killed four U.S. servicemen and destroyed or damaged twenty bombers at Bienhoa air force base, near Saigon. A few days after the shelling of Bienhoa, General Nguyen Khanh, former Premier and presently military chief of staff, reiterated what he considers the solution for South Vietnam's problems: that South Vietnam and the United States should attack North Vietnam...
...dawn broke, a tardy Vietnamese search group set off in chase, but the rebels were nowhere to be found. It remained only to clear the debris from Bienhoa's strip-blackened hulks of the wrecked planes, the bodies of the dead from the barracks, and the few dud mortar shells that had fallen without exploding. Ironically, they bore the marking "Made in USA, 1944" and were apparently part of the booty captured by the Communists when the French surrendered...
...take batting practice in Busch Stadium. "They're hitting them into the stands off their fists." The Yankees had all kinds of complaints: the dirt was too hard, the wind too strong, the fences too short, and the outfield grass looked as though it had been mowed with mortar shells. In the second inning, Rightfielder Mickey Mantle proved that his throwing arm was good as ever-by firing the ball clear into the grandstand on a play at the plate. Leftfielder Tommy Tresh misplayed an easy liner into a triple, Catcher Elston Howard was charged with two passed balls...