Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life-and-death struggle against Communism, poverty and lack of education, but the South Vietnamese will win it, as we will give our lives if we have to for the struggle." Last week Sergeant Gardner, 39, gave his life when he ran into a Viet Cong mortar attack in the jungle 360 miles north of Saigon. Three days later, two U.S. Army officers were killed in a Viet Cong ambush. They brought to six the number of U.S. servicemen killed by the Viet Cong since December...
...actual details of the method took over two months to develop but the effect was generally as Saarinen had originally conceived it. Molds similar to that used for the construction of walls was erected and stone into it. Cement mortar was pumped into the mold, between pieces of stone, through attached After the cement had set, the were withdrawn and the walls were blasted to remove much of the mortar. The stone walls which were thus created by this process are significantly cheaper than masonry production but are quite handsome nonetheless...
...goes well, the sound of a bamboo drum will break the jungle silence just before dawn. At the signal the "firepower" detachment of regulars hammers the fort with mortar shells and machine-gun fire. From another direction come the Viet Cong assault troops. Blasting a wray through the barbed wire with explosives tied to the end of a pole, they swarm over the rampart screaming "Tien-len [Forward]'" and pour a withering fire into the startled defenders...
S.A.O. killers went on to bomb unemployed Moslems queuing for relief at a social-security office and to shell a Moslem cafe with mortar fire. In Oran, where tough General Joseph Katz delayed an all-out offensive against the S.A.O. while awaiting additional French troops, Secret Army snipers fired on Moslems from the rooftops; European householders cheered...
While raising bricks* and mortar, Hesburgh drastically revamped the curriculum, tossed out vocational courses by the score. He held down undergraduate enrollment, let graduate enrollment (now 795) grow. To get better students, he raised admission standards; the average IQ of entering freshmen has gone from 118 to 127. Since 1954, average College Board scores have risen 78 points to 536 on the verbal aptitude test, and 77 points to 579 on the math aptitude test...