Word: ambusher
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...today. Corporal Riesen barely had time to write his book and to enjoy the fruits of his Croix de la V ail lance Vietnamienne, with palm, before he was sent off to crumbling Algeria. There, last December, his devotion to La Patrie led him to death in an Arab ambush...
Stonewall was no superman. He stumbled into an ambush at Kernstown, and his failure to press home the attack during the Seven Days' Battles has never been satisfactorily explained. But he resembled U.S. Grant in his habitual willingness to fight, and Napoleon in his instant grasp of the weakness of an enemy position. His own officers were infuriated by his secrecy, often knowing as little of his plans as did the foe. Occasionally this habit cost him a victory. More often it resulted in stunning surprises, as at Chancellorsville when his entire force suddenly appeared in the enemy rear...
...Dadshah himself, saying Mrs. Carroll was "alive and well'' and offering to free her if granted amnesty. A doctor and nurse, sent by the U.S. embassy in Teheran, hurried to the spot. This week, in a desert gully only two miles from the site of the original ambush, searchers found the body of pretty Anita Carroll, shot to death...
President Eisenhower's plan for a non-partisan monetary commission to study the nation's overall financial system (TIME, Jan. 21) ran into a strictly partisan ambush in Congress last week. By a vote of 16 Democrats to twelve Republicans, the House Banking and Currency Committee, with full covering fire from Speaker Sam Rayburn, rejected the President's plea for permission to appoint nine U.S. financial leaders to lead the study, instead decided to do the job itself. The chairman of the investigating committee would undoubtedly be Democrat Wright Patman. Said Speaker Rayburn: "If there is going...
...Generation. For all his newfangled, semi-bullet-proof vest of spun glass and nylon, Author Russ was in a war that was part French-and-Indian ambush tactics and part World War I trench fighting. Long before Russ joined the outfit on New Year's Day 1953, the Korean war had become a stalemate of dug-in positions. Massive mortar and artillery barrages confined both sides to night patrols, reconnaissance, ambush or recovery of the dead. With a certain Byronesque recklessness, Russ volunteered for them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel...