Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli military officials insisted that the attacks were retaliatory responses to cease-fire violations by the Syrians and the P.L.O., not a major escalation in the fighting. They blamed the Syrians for the ambush that took the lives of five Israeli soldiers on patrol in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday. Said a high-ranking official in Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry: "We are sending a message to the Syrians and to the besieged Palestinians: We will not let the situation develop into a war of attrition." Meanwhile, Fadel el Dani, 37, the deputy director of the P.L.O. office...
Suspect in the Jordan ambush...
...aversion to interracial couples. He was sentenced to life in prison for the August 1980 murders of two black joggers in Salt Lake City. Police also considered him the prime suspect in another shooting that year. Last week Joseph Paul Franklin, 32, was formally charged with the May 1980 ambush of Civil Rights Leader Vernon Jordan in Fort Wayne...
...Auden is a textbook case drawn largely from the poet's autobiography-of-sorts, A Certain World. The book is an alphabetical listing of subjects close to Auden's heart, and the psychological evidence is so blatant that one should expect an ambush. Edel plunges ahead. Under "Castration Complex," he finds a reference to "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb," whose mother warns him that he will lose his favorite fingers if he does not stop his infantile habit. He does not, and in comes "the great, long, red-legged scissors-man" to carry out the sentence...
Alfred Hitchcock mastered this effect: a fool acts huffy in a dangerous situation (a battle, an ambush). He protests the noise and inconvenience while the bullets pop around him, and the audience chuckles at his posturing. Then suddenly this character is shot; in The Lady Vanishes (1938) he examines the blood from his own wound. All at once the audience is not laughing any more. It realizes that what seemed hilarious a moment ago was never really funny in the first place because the context was not funny, because nothing can ever be funny when death is possible. To bring...