Word: ambusher
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...Paris square and disappears. Her passage stirs eddies of emotion. For a traffic policeman boredom dissipates briefly; he lusts sharply and happily. A woman sneers contemptuously; obviously the girl is a slut, because quite apparently she is wearing no brassiere. A plainclothes detective on a stake-out forgets his ambush to gawk; an aging homosexual glances at the girl in envy; a bookstore owner obsessed with the past history of this quarter of Paris barely sees the girl as she passes before his eyes. And a novelist named Carnejoux, watching the square from his balcony, is excited: first, because...
Meanwhile, thousands of miles across India in N.E.F.A., a party of 38 Indian soldiers in Longju beat off an ambush by 300 Chinese...
...What did you do that for, then?' 'Because he was a man.' And not everybody will look at me gone-out. 'Brian, my lad, I'm proud o' you,' the old man would say." Later, in an ambush that looks for a while like the finish, Brian deliberately aims his gun so as to avoid hitting the enemy. At the end of his hitch, he ships back to England, musing that he has found "the key to the door . . . And with the key to the door, all you need do now . . . was flex...
...paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions dropped behind enemy lines in the dead of night on Dday. Most of them got lost. They fought or drowned in swamps that air reconnaissance had failed to reveal. They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes. Old Soldier Marshall frequently becomes a bore describing intricate flanking movements (the maps are always on another page), but he offers some vivid vignettes. Among them: "The battle scene in modern warfare is commonly an empty...
MINISTER. Like an ambush. Nope. From what the Bishop told me privately, they're not exactly anti-religious...