Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major policy change has occurred at HUD since 1974, Hills said. Since that year the government has been subsidizing rents instead of providing bricks and mortar for housing projects, she said...
...Salisbury discotheque last week, to the pulsating shock waves of an amplified band that seemed as loud as a mortar barrage, "troopies" (soldiers) and their birds were rocking to a song about the country's bad news. It appeared, in fact, that the blues had become an informal national anthem. As gloomy figures on war casualties and economic decline continued to seep in, record numbers of white Rhodesians were moving out. The latest mission to Salisbury by an Anglo-American negotiating team was called a failure by the Rhodesian government...
...pointed to with pride as a remnant of a great African past. No one is sure who built this temple city, probably in the last half of the 15th century, but one is struck by the fact that, for all its grandeur, it was erected stone by stone, without mortar, with the most primitive technology, at a time when the Pyramids were ancient, when the Acropolis was old, when Chartres was no longer new. It is no use denying that in Africa one often feels a sense of Western cultural superiority, and this contributes to the white South African attitude...
Pope Pius IX thought otherwise, and in 1852 Bishop Neumann plunged into the hurly-burly of mid-century church affairs. The debt-ridden church was swelling with poor immigrants, and Neumann was forced to become absorbed in bricks-and-mortar fund raising. He began building churches at the rate of one almost every month, and devoted much care to the completion of the cathedral roof. He was particularly concerned with the building of Catholic schools, for he said openly that public schools were dens of immorality and heresy. When he became bishop, only 500 Philadelphia children went to parochial schools...
...country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls-an attack that did not prove serious enough to cancel the nightly sundowner cruise for tourists along the Zambezi River...