Word: mortaring
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Again, Senator Truman. Hardly had Patterson and Ickes finished mortar-firing on Jeffers when the Navy let go a torpedo, too. The condensers, valves and other instruments which Bill Jeffers had snatched from the high-octane program the Navy must also have for its escort program. The Navy also wanted Jeffers stripped of his priority...
...unfinished work outside the city, so we circled the place for some time. The whole of Berlin was vomiting mortar, dust and steel. Berlin really got sick to its belly. It had a really good touch of indigestion last night...
...this sign in the Scottish highlands last week. They read the brutal details on white crosses over neatly heaped graves. "This man forgot to examine his climbing rope"; "This Royal Marine walked in front of his pal's rifle"; "This officer put a bomb down a three-inch mortar the wrong way"; "This man took up a position against the skyline...
...Rangers were over the side in the icy loch and splashing ashore. Mud-coated from the day's earlier work, they formed in three waves, headed up the hill, one wave advancing while a second fired bullets and mortar shells over their heads at dummy targets, and the third swung wide in a flanking movement...
Last week Lou Diamond's friends at San Diego did not know exactly where he was. One report had him somewhere in the South Pacific, wearing a grey beard, trying to figure out how to hit an airplane with a mortar shell. Lou never could forget that batter who brought down the sparrow...