Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artillery and air by shrewd use of caves, tunnels, deep approach trenches. They attacked mostly at night, when U.N. close-support planes were on the ground. Flares, star shells, tracers and the full moon gave some light, but not enough for the day-loving U.N. The Chinese used mortar smokeshells to hide their movements by day. On attack, they advanced recklessly through their own or U.N. artillery fire, and when Communist and U.N. units were closely engaged, the Chinese put their barrages indiscriminately on both...
...doughfeet were pinned on the steep, sandy slopes. Eventually they drove the Chinese off the top and dug in behind barbed wire and sandbags, hauled up on a hastily built cable railway. Thus protected, their machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese. Their mortar-men put smoke shells on Papa-san to blind the enemy spotters there, and U.N. planes blasted the Chinese assembly points. This week the Reds drove the Americans and ROKs back in a desperate night counterattack; but when day came, the U.N. troops won back most of the lost ground...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum is brick-and-mortar proof that even the hatreds of war cannot break the cultural bonds between America and Germany. For forty years, the squat, white building whose tower catches the shadow from Memorial Hall has been the center of Germanism at the University. As such, it has been the target of the distrust and suspicion accompanying two wars and their aftermath's. But war feelings have never hindered the steady accretion of art objects that has made the Museum a world famous storehouse of reproductions and home of the finest collection of German paintings outside Germany...
...along two-thirds of the coast-to-coast front. It was not an offensive; it was a struggle for outposts (only a few probes were aimed at the U.N. main line, and these were easily flicked off). In one 24-hour period, the Communists fired 93,000 artillery and mortar shells-about twice their previous record for one day. U.S. Marines and the French battalion attached to the U.S. 2nd Division fought sharp engagements. But as the week wore on, the Chinese concentrated most of their fury on the fight for White Horse. The U.N. could not tolerate Chinese...
...dedicated little artist with an iron-grey mustache and invariably dressed in traditional Bavarian leather shorts, Bickel took up wall-painting when an antique dealer gave him the job of repainting a house to make look old. In an 18th century manuscript, Bickel found a formula for fresco painting: mortar made half & half of fine sand and chalk, laid on while wet with five simple "earth" colors. Taking his style from the baroque masters (because they specialized in "free and large" art), he achieved such appealing results that he has been swamped with commissions ever since-and so have...