Word: ambusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must find out whom and what we are fighting. We must discover our friends and joining with them be justified in doing anything to make war difficult." For "our enemies are active and lie everywhere in ambush...
Last year one of the major surprises in the Pulitzer Prize announcements was the award of the poetry prize to Audrey Wurdemann, 24-year-old Seattle girl, for her second book. Bright Ambush. While most critics found Miss Wurdemann's verse promising and fluent, it was also characterized as conventional, frail, filled with echoes of stock poetic attitudes and phrases. Last week Miss Wurdemann's third book revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven...
...have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed directly pointed, the road looked menacing. The Haji's son began to pick off the native road laborers from ambush. Last week the British Raj set out to spank the Haji...
...those who have followed American poetry for years and have its best interests at heart. His chief claim to fame lies in his own work-and I say this as one who has just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including...
...ever faced a firing squad. First to do so was one Jaime Greinstein, a Polish ne'er-do-well, who rhapsodied before he died one sunrise last month, "The skies of Cuba blush." Last week one Jose Costiello Fuentes, an ordinary bandit who had killed a lieutenant from ambush, faced in manful silence four rifle barrels, died without a word. To frivolous murder Cubans are accustomed, but the legal and methodical execution of a criminal was last week profoundly shocking and disconcerting to all Cuba. Announced the Secretary of the Interior last week, "Senora O'Halloran fought bravely...