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Word: mortaring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritual, after sundown on Monday evening they sit down at the Seder table to retell the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt. They recall their ancestors' tears with salt water and bitter herbs and eat a sweet concoction of nuts, apple and wine to commemorate the mortar with which slaves once cemented bricks. The anguish of captivity is recounted in the text of the Haggadah, and the joy of freedom celebrated with song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Sagging Spirits | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION: Pie chart in shape of mortar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade Face-Off: A dangerous U.S.-Japan confrontation | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION: Pie chart in shape of mortar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade Face-Off: A dangerous U.S.-Japan confrontation | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...There was total confusion," a survivor said later. "It was dark and the wounded were screaming, and we didn't know what was happening." At about 2 a.m., the first mortar fire crashed into the Salvadoran army's garrison at El Paraiso, just 36 miles from the capital of San Salvador. In a daring and well- planned attack last week, leftist guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Forces killed at least 69 government soldiers, as well as a U.S. military adviser, Staff Sergeant Gregory Fronius, 27, of Greensburg, Pa. He was the first American to die in combat during El Salvador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Bloody Setback | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...arms smuggling to surface involves a 4,300-ton West German freighter that has been sailing back and forth off the coast of Portugal for nearly a month. Gretl, owned by a Hamburg shipper, was carrying $6.8 million worth of Portuguese-made munitions, including some 67,000 120-mm mortar shells that were originally bound from the port of Setubal to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The shipment in a West German flag carrier was illegal under a Bonn law that forbids the transport of armaments to "areas of tension." The delivery was contracted for by the Danish shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody's Doing It | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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