Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the 1960s and is now bulging at the seams. Its buildings--Andover Hall, holding the chapel and administrative offices, and Rockefeller and Divinity Halls, both dormitories--need substantial maintenance work on the scale of the ongoing undergraduate House renovations. "There's a lot of sort of bricks-and-mortar work that needs to be done." Martin says...
That's what the education of the teacher is all about. It's not presumptuous to compare what we do to building the Temple; the danger is quite the opposite, to trivialize it, because it may look merely like a set of jobs--mixing mortar, carrying hods. You have to have a vision in your head of what the building will finally look like...
...This), the synthesizer has become almost as important to rock as drums and electric guitars. Novelty is part of its attraction. "People are tired of guitar-based music," says Mark Mothersbaugh, a member of Devo. "Synthesized sounds are as close as you can get to V-2 rockets, mortar blasts and TV news...
...photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around. At one particularly bad moment on the way south, a Lebanese Army trooper shot into the ground at my feet to force me to turn back. I have rarely been so scared." He finally reached Israeli lines, south of Beirut, where he was able to place...
...combat grew into the most savage street fighting West Beirut has seen since Lebanon slipped into civil war nine years ago. Afraid of what the night would bring, many sought refuge in basements, stairwells, wherever they stood the best chance of surviving a direct hit by grenade or mortar. Every minute seemed to bring the sounds of rockets screeching overhead and slamming into buildings. Even the usual wails of crisis could not be heard: the streets had grown so dangerous that ambulances and fire trucks did not risk making runs...