Word: ambusher
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...Everybody Got Rattled." The Americans broke through the Reds early the second night, only to run into an ambush...
...muscled in by the simple method of eliminating the previous owner, James Ragen. In 1946, Ragen told police that if he was killed, the men responsible would be Tony Accardo, Jake Guzik, and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Ragen was shot down in a noisy ambush on a South Side Chicago corner in 1946, then poisoned in his hospital bed when he showed signs of recovering from his wounds. "After his death," concluded the committee, "the mob took over and that was that...
...thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have gone out after the Communists in the Cis Bassac. Only twice have they made contact, each time by falling into a Communist ambush from which only superior firepower saved them. Last week the French made another attempt to track down and destroy the guerrillas. TIME Correspondent John Dowling saw the fight, cabled...
...Groton, Conn. It is the Ki, pocket-size (750 tons) submarine, designed and built with one mission: to hunt and destroy other submarines. Only a little more than half as big as the Navy's fleet-type sub, the K-i's job is to lie in ambush along enemy submarine lanes, spot its prey with sonar gear, then nail the enemy with homing torpedoes equipped with electronic ears. It is one answer to the threat of Russia's big and still growing underwater fleet. Said Rear Admiral C. B. Momsen, veteran submariner: "I can say from...
That stimulated other scholars, and soon they were turning up new and startling additional information about Kittredge's Sir Thomas. It appeared that Sir Thomas had been a prodigious troublemaker in his day, had tried to ambush the Duke of Buckingham, had broken into the home of one Hugh Smyth and raped his wife Joan, had extorted 100s, from a Margaret Kyng and a William Hales and 20s. from a John Mylner, had broken into Hugh Smyth's place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth...