Word: mortaring
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...Reds sat on top of Big Nori, South Koreans of the ist R.O.K. Division moved up to occupy Little Nori. For five weeks-up to last week-the two hostile forces lived in what passes for peace on the front lines, occasionally taking a potshot or lobbing over a mortar shell and getting a round or two in return. Both the Reds and the ROKs spent much time and energy improving their caves, tunnels, trenches, bunkers...
They died by the dozens, but still they came on. By 3 a.m. they had overrun two hilltop posts on the perimeter's north face, finishing off the Moroccan and Thai defenders with knives, bayonets, machetes, grenades. Within minutes the Viet Minh were putting mortar fire on Nasan's vital airstrip. Next day the attackers had backed off of one hill, and French paratroopers recaptured the other...
...install sanitary facilities by the good lady's promise to meet all costs above a basic minimum. The novelist and the heiress drew up plans for slum clearance, model-housing projects, community flats with gardens, and Dickens gave days on end to making their paper schemes come brick & mortar true...
...automatic-carbine fire. Chinese on the ridge replied with burp guns. Amid the brush of the slope, Marines tumbled the bulky, bleeding form of the wounded sergeant on to a poncho and labored off in the darkness, a man hauling at each corner of the improvised litter. Bright, raucous mortar bursts followed along behind them. The bursts were short and above the din they heard a cheering sound-two alarmed Chinese patrols back on the ridge were busily trying to kill each other. The Marines reached their own lines safely by dawn. But it was, they agreed...
...announced that the U.S. Air Force has dropped more bombs in Korea than in the first two years after Pearl Harbor; the Navy and Marine air arms almost as many as in World War II from beginning to end. The Eighth Army has expended about the same weight of mortar and artillery shells as in the whole European theater during the eleven months from D-day to V-E day. And yet, during the Korean fighting, the enemy has grown not weaker, but stronger...