Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hiss for his thorough recital of the architectural "improvements" which, in his mind, seem to place the "Harvard Square" a cut above its much maligned but much to be mourned predecessor. However, rock gardens and heliotrope ceilings are no more the essence of a theatre than bricks and mortar are the essence of a university...
Costly Battle. Next day 20 helicopters with U.S. pilots were kept busy jungle-hopping troops of the South Vietnamese 7th Division to build up an assault on the Viet Cong stronghold near Due Hoa. One helicopter crash-landed on a muddy pineapple field and was battered by Communist mortar and rifle fire, killing two Vietnamese soldiers and injuring three Americans, who set the helicopter afire to keep it out of Viet Cong hands. Said one hard-worked U.S. pilot: "It sounded like World War II out there." Even Saigon was not safe: on Christmas Day, a 26-year...
...tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar and rubble...
...Katanga gunners'main target was the U.N. headquarters. One afternoon, two Belgian whites in civilian clothes, carrying the tube, tripod and shells of a mortar, walked down a street in the center of town, set up their weapon in a used-car lot; then, casually, they began bombarding the U.N. office building five blocks away. The fire of little, informal squads like this one was remarkably accurate-they were getting instructions from the roof of the tallest building in town, the new hospital, which the U.N. later captured...
Biding Its Time. At first, it seemed curious that the U.N. did not follow up its plane and mortar bombardment with an all-out strike against the positions of the Katangese in the city. But delay had its purpose. Fact was, the U.N. was gathering strength for an attack that could not lose. The U.N. now had 4.500 men to Tshombe's 2,000. More reinforcements were coming in by air, plus 106-mm. and 75-mm. field pieces, as well as bazookas, jeeps, food and ammunition...