Word: mortaring
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...seven years at Lawrence, Mrs. Pusey had been advisor to the college Mortar Board and enjoyed her frequent and informal meetings with undergraduates. The Puseys continue to receive a great deal of mail from their Appleton friends and subscribe to the weekly college paper, the Lawrentian...
...Hutchins is not only living in an ivory tower, he has sealed himself in with ivory bricks, using ivory mortar, until he is completely isolated from the world...
...businessman's library. In it, he de fended the philosophy as well as the operating efficiency of U.S. capitalism. But he also lamented that most businessmen are so preoccupied with production schedules that they leave the intellectual market to their collectivist enemies. Said Randall: "With brick and mortar and stainless steel we are the greatest builders the world has ever seen, but our daring and confidence seem to leave us when we walk out of the plant into the realm of ideas...
...last week, a Communist observer idly scuffed at a mortar shell lying in the demilitarized zone. Alarmed, a U.N. observer turned to an interpreter and made the following statement, which was duly taken down, delivered, and made a part of the official record: "Our side believes that this object, which personnel of your side have been kicking, is an unexploded live round. In order to protect both sides, our side requests that personnel of your side stop this action...
...them Chinese, lay on East Berlin Hill and in the valley around the outpost. At the first dawn of peace, a handful of Chinese started up the slope toward Marine positions 25 yards away. Carefully the Reds wound through the debris of war: unexploded hand grenades, live mortar shells, empty machine-gun belts, smashed helmets-and the bodies. The marines let the Chinese pass a makeshift barrier, but spurned proffered Chinese cigarettes. Then one marine pointed at a Chinese corpse lying head down in a marine trench, and at a mutilated body of a marine on the Chinese side...