Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidency against Adlai Stevenson, John went off to his first combat in Korea, was assigned to one of Ike's old prewar outfits, the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment. As G-3 (Operations) and later as a 3rd Division Intelligence officer for 14 months, John came under Communist mortar fire, earned his Combat Infantryman's Badge and a Bronze Star, won high praise from his superiors. Reported one of them, Colonel Edwin H. Burba: "He's a very competent, long-headed individual with a quick, analytical mind...
...stepped up in the orange and pomegranate groves outside of the village of Firq, a company of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry arrived in Bahrein from the British base at Nairobi. Firq finally fell after a concentrated attack by Trucial Oman Scouts, covered by machine gunners and mortar barrages from the Cameronians and Hussars...
Gustav bought new iron-ore mines and coal mines, built bigger presses and mills. When World War I broke out, Krupp was the biggest industrial firm on the Continent, with 82,500 workers. During the war Krupp built the Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed the Liège forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France. Its name was also applied later by newspapermen to the German gun that shelled Paris from 75 miles away...
...story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology and the bricks and mortar of the Resmond Street Independent Church...
...second: "I am making a living." But the third, rising to his full height, replied: "Sir, I am building a temple." The lesson is simple: to Earl Warren the law is a temple and the Supreme Court a builder. And by last week the blueprints were ready, the mortar was flying, and the marble blocks were moving toward a new look in U.S. legal architecture...