Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level air would keep it from making a steady bombing run. But it flies pretty fast nevertheless, and if it is flying at 500 m.p.h. (733 ft. per second) when the bomb is released, the bomb starts its curve with the muzzle velocity of an 81-mm. mortar shell, whose range is two miles...
...wearing a mustache and a scowl, plays a hard-boiled Marine colonel who flourishes a swagger stick, derides the Red Cross for dishing out "sentimental slop" to his boys, eats out a chaplain simply because the troops, attending a prayer meeting called by the reverend, got sprayed by Japanese mortar shells...
Choking back a thousand tears, a thousand mortar-boarded seniors will "draw near" the commencement platform today, and officially end the grandeur that was college. One of those thousand tears, however, will not be restrained. I shall weep unashamedly, for I know the future is black. For all of us, the prospects of summer and fall, 1956, have more threat than promise. In several weeks or months, the majority of us will be in one of three forms of inexpressible pain...
...Vellucci, a man of vision, does not let the first sweet taste of defeat embitter him. He almost succeeded in pushing through a City Council confiscation order Tuesday which would have left the University a meek rubble of brick, mortar, and Ibi. He foresaw glistening acres of tarmac parking space which would extend as far as the eye could see, asserting yet another advance of Urban Renewal. To avenge his initial defeat, which came by an encouragingly scant one-vote margin, Al will again propose seizure of University property, this time "by eminent domain." It is gratifying to know that...
...also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds the dying boy's hand to comfort him. Snaking their way back toward their own lines, the men capture an unarmed Russian women's mortar group. Zoll rapes one of the women. Steiner leaves him behind to be castrated and stomped to death by her avenging sisters in one of the more horrifying scenes in a book that is rarely short on horror...