Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven days. He even had a mild brush with the terrorism that haunts the region. One night, as he slept at U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon's house in suburban Beirut, two Katyusha rockets whizzed overhead and exploded about 100 yards away. The rockets, like several artillery or mortar rounds that subsequently fell within 500 yards of a U.S. Navy ship offshore, were thought to have been fired from the mountains by Syrian-backed Druze forces...
Rooney explained that the concrete of modern buildings does not hold up to changing air temperatures as well as the brick and mortar of older buildings--such as the undergraduate Houses--because it cannot expand and contract as well...
...than in Hadleigh Castle, 1829. Constable brought to his view of the castle (which overlooks the Thames estuary) a pressure of melancholy: he was painting this desolate shore from memory, and his beloved wife Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image is as intense...
...been that simple, but the people in Washington sure went to the other extreme. There were ridiculous body counts. Charlie Company would take a useless piece of real estate one day, only to hand it back over to the enemy by nightfall. The inept leadership allowed soldiers to lob mortar and shells on their own men. And all during this time, politicians argued about the shape of the table in the Paris "peace" conference. "We're in the jungle with two canteens and two C-rations," one soldier remembers, "and they're arguing about what kind of fuckin' table they...
...stench of death hung over the isolated Nicaraguan village of Bismuna last week. Bullet holes pocked the wooden sides of the tiny thatched huts that cluster on stilts along the bank of a small river, 20 miles from the Honduran border. A concrete schoolhouse stood blackened and gutted by mortar fire. Brown-shirted members of Bismuna's Sandinista militia defense force gathered up unexploded mortar rounds and other debris of battle. Jorge Vargas Lopez, 38, a combat veteran who fought in Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution of 1979, pointed to boot tracks near the river. Said...