Word: mortaring
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...mortar binding the West together set with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and the hopeful anniversary of Marshall aid in Europe (see below), Russia cast about for a suitably truculent counter move...
...week, he recognized them at once. Their clothes were clean but more patched and ragged than is usual in Western Germany, they carried tiny battered satchels instead of suitcases, and their eyes were bright with anticipation. Thirty-five-year-old Pastor Reich, who lost one leg to a Russian mortar shell, hobbled forward on his cane to introduce himself. "Guten Tag," said Else Hartmann and Irma Mueller shyly...
...Lost." Kolachi village, on the way, no longer smoked but the smell of burnt thatch and straw (set ablaze by mortar shells) hung pungently over all. Its cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields...
Curtis ("Buzzy") Boettiger, who recovered from a mild attack of polio six weeks ago, and his boss, Henry Morgenthau, who are making a tour of Israel for the United Jewish Appeal, were all right (except for possible jangled nerves) after a few minutes under mortar fire in Negeb...
...Greeks who won at Grammos had defeated more than a handful of rebels. United Nations observers found ample evidence that the guerrillas had received aid from Communist-dominated Countries. At several points well inside Albania the U.N. observers saw deep trenches, mortar emplacements, pillboxes, ammunition and food. Just inside Greek territory observers found Hungarian canned vegetables and fruit, Yugoslav canned meat and Albanian cigarettes. In the bushes on either side of the border were Bulgarian books on such subjects as "Thirty Years in the Soviet Army," "This Is How We Fought at Stalingrad" and "The American Plan for the Enslavement...