Word: ambushed
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...boredom which took me to Tabasco during the religious persecution, to a leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong war against boredom...
...gambling interests under the protection of the late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Whatever happened, the result was a New York Mafia power struggle known as the Banana War. It ended with at least seven dead. In 1966, Bill Bonanno was almost killed in a Brooklyn ambush. After Joe Bonanno reappeared, his house in Tucson, Ariz., was bombed. It turned out not to be the Mafia. The assault, in fact, was carried out by an FBI agent with the assistance of a few soldier-of-fortune types...
Marriage Proposals. On a night-ambush patrol, he tried to place his men quietly in a cornfield, but "it kept going crunch . . . I dropped my rifle once and I couldn't find it. I realized, God I'm spooking the water buffalos, and 1 have herds overrunning me. I'm waking the V.C. nation...
...tires, which had been punctured by barbed wire. They did not know that they were still ten yards inside the Irish Republic; at that place, the border is marked only by a stream winding through the tussocky green fields and pastures. Their ignorance was fatal. I.R.A. gunmen lying in ambush in the hedgerows opened fire. One corpora] was killed and the other seriously wounded...
...farmer whose property straddles the border. "If I had known it was going to come to shooting, I would have told those two boys to drive on another little road." Such sentiments, however, are not common in the region. Irish troops and police were seen-and photographed-near the ambush site, but they did nothing. The I.R.A. congratulated the local villagers for "their courageous resistance to foreign occupation troops...