Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, by a 287-to-113 House vote, a $1.2 billion, fiveyear, bricks-and-mortar higher education bill to help the nation's 700 public and 1,300 private and church-connected colleges and universities build badly needed classrooms, libraries and laboratories. Different versions of the same measure were approved last year on the floors of both the Senate and the House, but got involved in a bitter House-Senate conference battle. While the conference committee changes were being considered in the House, the powerful National Education Association wired every Congressman, warning that the measure imperiled "America...
...Communist Viet Cong was obviously trying to capitalize on the Buddhist crisis. Stepping up their attacks, the Red guerrillas wounded 14 U.S. advisers in a mortar barrage on a U.S. compound in Can Tho and killed three Americans when the Reds shot up a U.S. medical convoy north of Saigon. A fourth adviser was killed later in the week when jittery sentries began shooting at each other in the dark. The dead brought to 89 the number of U.S. troops killed in the war in South Viet...
...painters of miniatures. The enamel work, as Cellini described it a century later, was a painstaking process. First, he said, "you can grave on your plate anything that your heart delights in." The colored glass that is to form the enamel must be "well ground in a little round mortar with very clean water." The powdered glass is applied "as if you were painting in miniature." It should then be fused to the metal by firing it until the glass "begins to move" but not to "run." Other coats are applied and fired in the same...
...monsoon downpour rained on the Plain of Jars last week-and so did a barrage of Communist Pathet Lao artillery and mortar shells. In an effort to consolidate last month's ground gains on the Plain, the Reds began pinpoint artillery attacks on the last remaining Neutralist toe holds on the plateau, as well as on the headquarters of Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le at Muong Phan, just west of the Plain. Typically, the Reds blamed the U.S. for the resumption of hostilities, said that "the Americans have given orders to the reactionaries of Kong Le to attack...
...economy, most of industry's capital spending will not go for expansion, as it always has before, but for modernization to make industry more efficient and competitive. About 70% of the programmed spending will go for new or better equipment instead of bricks and mortar. In today's economy, modernization is more vital to industry than ever before, because competition is fiercer than ever both at home and abroad. Inland Steel's Block competes against U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, but both have to compete against Japanese and German steelmakers; all the free world...