Word: mortaring
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...Phil Hart, easygoing Charlie Potter will discover a serious threat to second-term ambitions. Pennsylvania-born Hart is, like Potter, a wounded World War II veteran; he was hit by D-day mortar fire on Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...
...Cross unit attached to the Italian army during World War I. His Juliet is a volunteer nurse in a British field hospital, set up in a small town where the Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar shell catches him in the leg, and he is invalided back to Milan. She is transferred to the same hospital. Days she takes his temperature; nights she makes it soar. When he goes back to his unit, she goes away to have their baby...
...Patrolling the Algerian side of the Tunisian border early one morning, Captain Rene Allard and 43 men of France's 23rd Infantry Regiment came under heavy mortar fire. Before long, 15 Frenchmen lay dead. The rebels, Allard later reported, had launched their attack from nearby Tunisia, were accompanied by vehicles of theTunisian National Guard. When French reinforcements arrived, the Algerians fled back into Tunisia, carrying with them four French prisoners...
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...Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, granddaughter of Munitions King Alfred ("Alfred the Great") Krupp, and herself fourth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, mother of the current (since 1943) Steel Kingpin Alfried Krupp (TIME, Aug. 19), who gave her name to the famed Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed World War I forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France; of a heart ailment; in Essen, Germany...