Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier controversies--the downhill event, the charge card issue, the flame continually being extinguished during its run through southern Japan, even the recent leftist mortar shell attack at Narita International Airport--are but the pre-Olympic warm-up. As the world turns to Nagano today, Japan will face its largest test...
...Adams Goes to Downing Street The last time Irish Republicans visited the British Prime Minister?s residence, they lobbed mortar shells from down the street. This time, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams will ring the doorbell...
...invited Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to pop round the Prime Minister's residence Thursday for a cup of tea. Talk about historic ? it's the first time since the partition of Ireland 76 years ago that any member of that party has been near Downing Street. Without a mortar bomb in hand, that...
...film doesn't shirk from conveying the keen sense that in the face of so much agony, an act of compassion had as random an impact in saving a life as did the mortar shells in ending so many. No one is left heartened by a false sense that good somehow triumphed in Sarajevo...
...spit-and-shine military town of Lawton, Okla., real men ain't supposed to cry. This is the home of Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post, where soldiers learn to kill with gun, mortar and missile, where the big boys belly up to the bar at Gertlestone's pub and down stiff shots of Jaegermeister, where the measure of a man lies partly in his ability to tuck his pain away in a place where nobody--nobody--can see it. No tears allowed in plain sight...