Word: mortars
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...lozenge-shaped glazed brick literally on thin air, forming arches between the steel ribs of the umbrellas just curved enough to hold up. One boy would build this ceramic webbing, a second boy stayed below and tossed wet bricks up, while a third constantly mixed the quick-setting gypsum mortar that held the flying Persian carpet of brick firmly in place. The holes between the bricks were chinked with more gypsum from below and with concrete poured over the top to form the weather surface...
Seldom in history have blocks and mortar been so malevolently employed or sorichly hated in return. One year old this month, the Wall of Shame, as it is often called, cleaves Berlin's war-scarred face like an unhealed wound; its hideousness offends the eye as its inhumanity hurts the heart. For 27 miles it coils through the city, amputating proud squares and busy thoroughfares, marching insolently across graveyards and gardens, dividing families and friends, transforming whole street-fronts into bricked-up blankness. "The Wall," muses a Berlin policeman, "is not just sad. It is not just ridiculous...
...Army has ceased fighting." But diehards in the provincial cities refused to accept the inevitable, even though, in a letter from his prison cell, the captured leader of the S.A.O., ex-General Raoul Salan, backed the truce. The fanatical S.A.O. leadership in Oran swore to continue the struggle. S.A.O. mortar shells landed on oil tanks near Oran. In Bone, the city hall was put to the torch by S.A.O. fanatics. The exodus of Europeans continued at the rate...
...life-and-death struggle against Communism, poverty and lack of education, but the South Vietnamese will win it, as we will give our lives if we have to for the struggle." Last week Sergeant Gardner, 39, gave his life when he ran into a Viet Cong mortar attack in the jungle 360 miles north of Saigon. Three days later, two U.S. Army officers were killed in a Viet Cong ambush. They brought to six the number of U.S. servicemen killed by the Viet Cong since December...
...actual details of the method took over two months to develop but the effect was generally as Saarinen had originally conceived it. Molds similar to that used for the construction of walls was erected and stone into it. Cement mortar was pumped into the mold, between pieces of stone, through attached After the cement had set, the were withdrawn and the walls were blasted to remove much of the mortar. The stone walls which were thus created by this process are significantly cheaper than masonry production but are quite handsome nonetheless...