Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five days, mortar and rifle fire thundered all around Bulawayo (derived from a Ndebele word and broadly meaning "place of killing"). Scores of homes near the camps were damaged by rocket fire. Streams of civilians fled from the confused battle into the nearby bush or to the city center. Shops and schools remained closed in the deserted downtown areas...
...subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth relative to fixed objects, but belief in the currency is diminishing even faster, at a geometric rate. Thus the conventional wisdom, that what goes up must come down...
...does seem to have been a period of relaxation last spring. Some of the hostages were moved into larger and more comfortable rooms. Queen was transferred from the Mushroom to a room in the chancellery building. Its window was bricked up, but some light seeped through cracks in the mortar. Said Queen: "I can't describe what it was like to wake up one morning and see light and hear people again. I remember there were a couple of schoolgirls just walking along and talking and singing outside. It can't be described what it meant to feel...
...subsequent rescue became part of a TIME cover story. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White was in Kampala for this week's World story on the Uganda elections when he and Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under a hail of government mortar and machine-gun fire. All the first aid needed when it was over was for a broken suffered by Campbell in a jump from the top of a court yard wall to reach the safety of the American embassy...
...Iranian outposts a few hundred yards away. In the distance, thick plumes of smoke arise from the burning oil refinery at Abadan. An Iraqi private describes how the remaining Iranian defenders have split into three-and four-man sniper squads. Some of the squads have attempted "hit and run" mortar assaults from the south bank of the Karun. An Iraqi general predicts that Abadan could fall within a week, depending on the intransigence of the Iranian holdouts and the willingness of the Iraqis to take sizable losses...