Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With something that might be a bricks and mortar issue we would take a secondary role, because that would deal with a specific institution," Sullivan says...
...found that only about 22 percent of all television reports from Vietnam before 1968 showed "actual combat, and often this was minimal--a few incoming mortar rounds or a crackle of sniper fire." In addition, of 167 film reports he reviewed, "only 16 had more than one video shot of the dead or wounded." The American people simply did not see gore night after night...
...second blast in a trash can at Victoria station during the morning rush hour killed one man and injured 46 other persons. The attacks set off a burst of hoax calls and bottled up nearly 500,000 metropolitan commuters. Coming only 11 days after the I.R.A. lobbed mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, the bombings aim at sustaining the terrorists' claim that they can and will bring dislocation to England just as they do in Northern Ireland...
Despite initial fears, the attackers turned out to be not Iraqi-sponsored terrorists but an older British adversary: the Irish Republican Army. The would-be assassins had parked a van 200 yds. from the Prime Minister's offices, then used a delayed-timing device to launch three mortar shells from the vehicle while they escaped. One landed in a garden at the back of Major's official residence; two more fell behind the Foreign Office. A total of three people were injured...
...Saturday afternoon sun of a somber January, the black granite walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were warm, almost animate to the touch. A blond teenage girl with a paper dove in her hair from an antiwar rally stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers...