Word: mortaring
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Outside Tel Aviv there were a few minor attacks during the week. But on Sabbath night, inside the cordoned area, came a spectacular defiance of the British military. Terrorists besieged the heavily fortified local headquarters for Hippo, rained mortar and machine-gun fire from roofs and nearby windows on it for 75 minutes. When the smoke cleared, the British announced the toll: one Briton killed, four Jews killed, 15 wounded...
...great-grandmother pounded rusks in it," a woman says of a kitchen mortar, "it's something sacred to me. How can I leave it behind?" A soldier is asked: "What are you fighting for?" and replies: "So that after the war I can have a house of my own, a family-kids ... a pretty house, with shrubs and flowers...
...committee of the two groups was appointed at the time of the Yale game, and its recommendations, not due for some length of time yet, will set in motion the wheels that will sell the idea, gather the money, and eventually see the final choice in finished brick and mortar...
...When the Senate War Investigating Committee set off its explosion of scandals about the Garsson brothers' string of 4.2 mortar-shell factories (TIME, July 15, et seq.), it also touched off a series of reports that many hundreds of U.S. soldiers had been killed or maimed by defective mortars...
Last week a report by the Army's Chemical Warfare Service told the sad, but not scandalous, facts: 38 officers and enlisted men had been killed and 127 wounded by faulty mortar fire; the casualties were caused by only 63 misfirings out of some 4,000,000 rounds; the defects were in the fuzes, not in the shells supplied by the Garssons...