Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried bundles of civilian clothes (including a coat bearing the label of a Seoul tailor), faked South Korean identity cards, rations for 15 days and $4,000 in U.S. money. Obviously, they had intended to infiltrate South Korea, but why had they jeopardized their mission by the ambush of the U.S. Jeep? Likeliest explanation: they thought they had been spotted by a U.S. patrol and had therefore opened fire...
...without an irritating reminder of the F.A.L.N.'s existence. Last week a main gas pipeline into Caracas went up in a blast of flame; a major bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush in the eastern mountains. So it has gone for more than a year-a government freighter hijacked, banks robbed, policemen murdered, hotels bombed, the U.S. military mission headquarters in Caracas burned...
GREENWOOD, MISS. FBI agents arrested Byron de la Beckwith, 42, member of a white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council, in connection with Medgar Evers' ambush slaying (TIME, June 21). J. Edgar Hoover said that the "Golden Hawk" telescope similar to that on the assassin's rifle had been traced to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon...
Messkirch is thus easy prey for the Nazis. Indifferent for most of the war, he suddenly gets word that his only son, Otto, has been killed in ambush in France. In his anguish, he turns for guidance to the only philosophy he knows-the Nibelungen lore. "Only blood could atone for the blood of my son," he concludes from his primitive reading, and this judgment is confirmed by the Nazis: "The principle of revenge permeated every aspect of our collective struggle in the Third Reich. Vengeance was the reason why our flying bombs thundered over the enemy's territory...
...that zone, the fighter is unlikely to worry about nomenclature; he is more concerned about how to avoid catching a bullet in the groin from ambush, or a blade in the back...