Word: ambusher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambush at Hollywood Gulch
...Great Spirit, Godfather to all the red men, has spoken. In a well-planned ambush at Hollywood Gulch he tomahawked Oscar, but it was accomplished in a most un-Indian-like maneuver. While Great Chief Brando [April 9] skulked in the surrounding mesquite, he dispatched a young squaw to the paleface council, carrying the war lance. Tonto would have been more courageous than that...
...Nghia province when the Viet Cong grabbed him. The guerrillas, he recalls, turned out to be "almost friendly." As he traveled with them, he noticed that they seemed to know to the minute when the routine of enemy artillery firing would begin and when it would end. After one ambush, Ramsey estimated that they exaggerated the casualties four or five to one in reports to their superiors...
...silent ambush, that the flowers of the entire world...
...cool in the police car, and the cops, although jittery, relax when they see that their passenger is unarmed. They have their own stories to tell, of new ambush attacks, and of strong desires for shotguns to repel something they call the Black Liberation Army. But after they listen to their passenger's story, there is a quiet in the car, and there is no further attempt to educate the new Rip Van Winkle. There is no attempt to go to the station. Rip is, suddenly, a free man all over again, and stuttering, he tries to find praise...