Word: ambusher
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Clement Attlee had laughed because he knew the Tories did not want the Labor government to resign on the strength of a losing vote on a motion to adjourn. Next day, Attlee twitted the Conservatives for their "ambush" tactics, declared he refused to regard the issue as one of sufficient weight. "We carry on," he told the House. Said Tory Winston Churchill: "May I express to the Prime Minister our thanks . . ." The Labor benches interrupted him with a roar of laughter. Churchill glanced up, saw the joke, then concluded: ". . . for [his] full and careful statement." The Laborites were still...
...until the 14th jump, it looked as if Monaveen might be the first royal horse to win since the Prince of Wales's (later King Edward VII) Ambush II in 1900. At the first barrier, six horses had gone down in a thundering crash, and Monaveen was up with the leaders. One more went down at the second, four more at the dreaded Becher's Brook. Monaveen stayed in the lead. Then his foreleg nicked the 14th fence. On the second time around the grueling 4½-mile course, Monaveen stumbled again...
Yankee prison camp in Missouri, join Quantrill's raiders and ride off to Santa Fe on a treacherous mission: to guide a gold-bearing wagon train into a bushwhackers' ambush. The wagons also carry beautiful, red-haired Arlene Dahl, who brings out strong, silent love in McCrea and villainous lust in Sullivan. Brought this far, any moviegoer should be able to gallop into the sunset...
...Snead did not let the gift of one stroke fool him. He stalked down the foggy fairways like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...eaters of Hollywood from the managements of the Brown Derby, Romanoff's and La Rue's, as reported in TIME, Dec. 5. It is a fact that the prices we ranchers receive have dropped about 30% in the past year, but . . . there seems to be a whole ambush of Ethiopians in the woodpile somewhere between here and the tables at Romanoff's. Maybe if some of you who have heaped the whole onus of beef prices on our heads for the past several years would look into the devious byways of the trade, cowmen could once again...