Word: ambusher
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...last week, guerrillas sabotaged the pipeline which carries Tanjong Mal-im's water supply. Codner led a party into the jungle to repair it. They had not gone far when a band of guerrillas sprang from ambush with blazing Bren and Sten guns. When help came, it was too late-twelve of the repair party were dead. One of them was Richard Michael Clinton Codner, who had been wounded by machine gun fire, tried to crawl to cover, and was shot dead beneath a bush...
...Hemingway once said, "is grace under pressure." Look Down in Mercy is a tale of disgrace under pressure. In an uncommonly good first novel, Author Walter Baxter tells the story of an ordinary British captain and how his codes and courage crack wide open under the strain of retreat, ambush and torture in Burma in World...
...things the two women in his life had denied him. Whenever he sneaked into her shack in the backyard, he was hitting back at both his wife and mother. Before Clara ends, Carl Sayre dies from his debauches and Petie, suspected of killing a white man, is shot from ambush. But by that time, Lilian Sayre has grown up enough to know why Carl behaved as he did, and how much she had to do with it. She has also crossed the color line, bearing a full quota of sympathy for Clara. Author Coleman has told his story with...
...President Republicans, with most at stake, went so far as to suggest that Krock had fallen into a Taft ambush. They put their faith in Ike's words at his final press conference. "If I have friends that have been my friends so long they believe they know how I would act and react under given situations," said Ike, "that's their own business, and I have never attempted to interfere with any man exercising his own privileges as an American citizen." He strongly implied that he would never announce his own politics or his intentions as long...
...bandits. Freed, this man showed Tulio's boys two drums of fuel intended for a local power plant. "If only they hadn't found that fuel!" mourned a San Pedro survivor later. Tulio ordered the town's homes burned, to flush out any possible police ambush, but forbade his men to fire the church or the school...