Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spurred by anger at literary injustice--sloppy thinking and extra-literary intrusions into creative and critical writing--he enters town "ready to apprehend delinquent writers' but just a little "too late to ambush the novelist John Irving, who has already ridden into town, cleaned out the banks, and ridden out again unharmed." While it is impossible to sum up Epstein's thoughts on American fiction, criticism, and literary life in general, his general theme is that "literature is going through a very bad patch at present...
...economists admitted, however, that a few lurking dangers could ambush the economy. For one thing, public confidence in the financial system is fragile in the wake of the savings and loan crises in Ohio and Maryland. So far, the trouble has been limited to institutions without federal insurance, but Greenspan is concerned that the uneasiness of depositors could spread. Said he: "Although the Ohio and Maryland savings and loan situations are of negligible dimension, they are scaring everyone silly. If people ever became disaffected with the federal insurance system, you could get emotional runs on the S and Ls that...
...Tamils," says a U.S. official, "have been on the losing end of Sri Lankan democracy for decades." Simmering unrest finally came to a boil in July 1983. After the Tigers killed 13 soldiers in an ambush, Sinhalese mobs ran wild through Colombo, killing at least 412 Tamils and leaving 100,000 others homeless...
...unsettling as a journalist to be "on the other side of the scrutiny," with television cameras pursuing him. He is having what he calls sober second thoughts: "My appetite for the hard question is diminished. I think, I hope, I'll get it back." Several of the objectionable ambush tactics once used on CBS's 60 Minutes are no longer permitted, but Wallace knows that "some of our viewers are crying for the hard stuff." So he must get back in harness. The process has begun: a few minutes after saying all this in a telephone interview, he calls back...
...assault on Zrariyah was a blow to the resistance movement, it brought little respite for the Israelis. The next day, two Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush. The same day, a car exploded on a road south of Tyre, killing five Lebanese civilians; the vehicle had apparently been heading for an Israeli outpost or convoy, but blew up prematurely. In Zrariyah, the governor of southern Lebanon, Halim Fayad, issued a warning: "New suicide attacks will be launched. We are ready to avenge this massacre...