Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overcome and opportunities to be ex-recited. The tutorial system is in that interesting period of its growth in which it may be said to have conquered initial opposition without yet crystallizing into any final shape. Conscious of security, it may face criticism without suspecting enemies in ambush and profit from the lessons which its own brief but rich life may teach...
Stern Frenchmen opined that the Druses would heed permanently such a warning that they must not murder Christians, pillage caravans, or continue to ambush French regiments. The Druses replied by engaging the French in battle with what weapons they can command for three entire days. At the end of that the French forces evacuated Suedia after an occupation of 36 hours, "on account of lack of water," according to French communiques, and took up a position at Messei Frey...
...pick up the casualties. For when the ships had returned to port the Sebastiano Veniero, submarine, 213 ft. in length, 925 tons submerged displacement, carrying six torpedo tubes and two 4-pounders, built during the early part of the War, had not returned. She had been ordered to ambush the "enemy" off Sicily and when last seen had been proceeding to her post Destroyers, dirigibles, submarines were sent in search...
After a meeting in support of M. Raoul Sabatir, Nationalist (Millerand- Poincaré Party) candidate in the Municipal elections, a number of young Nationalists walked into a Communist guet-apens (ambush). Many shots rang out, three Nationalists fell dead, eight others were wounded, two mortally. The Nationalists were unarmed...
...Ervine's Jane Clegg appeared the next year; declared that the "art theatre" had achieved new and notable dimensions in the U. S. when the Guild gave Heartbreak House, Mr. Pirn Passes By and Liliom among other plays of its third season. With He Who Gets Slapped, Ambush, Back to Methuselah, R.U.R., Peer Gynt, The Adding Machine, The Devil's Disciple, Fata Morgana and still others the Guild continued its conquest of an ever-growing public that looks to it for all that is broadly and deeply discerning in U. S. stage production...