Many had expected a repeat — if not worse — of the North's hour-long barrage on Yeonpyeong Island, just eight miles from the North Korean coast, which left two South Korean soldiers and two South Korean civilians dead.
The annual media overkill jamboree, at which players and coaches endure an hour-long barrage of redundant, mundane, leading and sometimes irrelevant questions from national and international reporters, is catnip for attention junkies, self-promoters, and other hangers-on.
In the culmination of a month-long barrage of innuendo against Iran in Egypt's state-owned press, a recent editorial in the staid Cairo daily, al-Ahram, charged the Islamic Republic with undermining chances for peace in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon.
On December 16th, in what must have seemed to bystanders like the longest barrage of machine-gun fire ever directed at a single target, members of the Mexican Navy's Special Forces killed Arturo Beltrán Leyva, a major trafficker.
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When the first barrage ended, Egyptian artillery began a second, 22 minute-long barrage, against targets at a depth of 1.5 3 kilometers.
The regiment's Shermans fired an hour-long barrage of high explosive shells along their front to create a diversion, under the cover of which the Canadians made their own landings on the far bank of the Savio.
Conserving their artillery for the main attack, the supporting Allied artillery only provided limited counter-battery fire and the division suffered heavily as they were forced to endure an hour-long barrage before zero hour came at 6 am.
