Word: ambusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a view to catching the driver loafing! It is perfectly legitimate to have an unconcealed clock device so installed as to record what the men are doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this sort of way is absolutely repellent to any person who has any feeling for the principles that should prevail between master and servant...
...himself a paleface squaw; Hawkeye (Randolph Scott), third-party Colonial, is trying to keep Heyward's Redcoat notions of wood-warfare from destroying all of them. Randolph Scott walks away with the picture and, in the end, with the affections of Alice. He confounds Magua's ambush in the woods, eludes him in a canoe chase, heads a mutiny of Colonials in the fort, and finally beats Heyward at a shooting contest for the privilege of dying at a Huron torture stake in place of Alice. He is suffering horribly when rescued...
...lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia for an attack on the British near Fort Stanwix. In the ambush at Oriskany Gilbert was wounded, lost some of his friends, but found when he returned that he had rewon his wife's love. Thereafter the Martins lived in harmony while the battles raged around them, raised two sons, raced for the forts during the raids, saw their work destroyed...
...prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking the wrong Indian tribes. When General Herkimer, superb Indian fighter, led 800 militiamen against Butler's force of a thousand British regulars and Tories and a thousand Indians, he was driven into an ambush by his cocky, inexperienced officers. After he had driven the enemy off, directed a six-hour battle despite a shattered leg, he lost his life when General Benedict Arnold sent an inexperienced doctor to amputate. Before the War was over Valley people were about as bitter about the Continental Congress as they...
...Mexican army promptly went into concerted action. In Guanajuato State they ambushed Ramirez the Rabbit, killed him and 21 of his men. They decapitated him and' paraded his head on a staff through the villages he had terrorized. In Durango State, Francisco Vasquez, tougher and smarter than the Rabbit, rode into an ambush but escaped alive. He left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None...