Word: ambushed
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...knew that the Florida Supreme Court had earlier in the day upheld the right of counties to hold manual recounts. And he also knew that manual recounting holds a certain intuitive "will of the people" appeal that dovetails very neatly with his avowed populism. And so, in an ambush address cleverly timed to get live feeds on the network newscasts, lines like this were rolling across his Teleprompter...
...book also has chapters discussing the implications of neurobiology and ("Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died") the fallacies of American intellectuals ("In the Land of the Rococo Marxists") and the rise of Silicon Valley ("Two Young Men Who Went West"). A sample of Wolfe's short fiction, the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg," appears right after the "My Three Stooges" chapter, as if to say, judge my fiction for yourself, you skeptics! For some reason, Wolfe's famous (or not-so-famous, depending on your generation) parody of The New Yorker and its editor William Shawn, published...
...best economy in human history but on the future and his promise to be the crusading hall monitor against price-gouging drug companies, corporate polluters and fat-cat campaign contributors. He took his highly stylized brand for a test drive during the primaries, turning back Bradley's ambush by repeating over and over, "I will fight...
...make sense to usher in a new era of libertarian athletics - to make everything legal, including anabolic agents, human growth hormones, stimulants, beta-blockers and the rest? The athlete with the best dealer - or best pharmacy - wins? Why not get the narcs out of the Olympics, eliminate the demeaning ambush tests, the sudden preposterous demands for urine samples, and let athletes and coaches govern their behavior, weighing the risks of permanent damage to their bodies against competitive benefits...
...Their final plan is to concede to the Palestinians' demand for a flight out to an unnamed Arab country and then to ambush them at the airport. Except that the "snipers" had neither the training nor the equipment for the job, and the four policemen deployed aboard the airliner "vote among themselves" to abandon the operation for lack of confidence in their own abilities, only seconds before their targets arrive. The snipers aren't in radio contact, haven't been preassigned targets, and are told that there are four rather than eight terrorists. And someone forgot to order...