Word: ambusher
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...first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with...
...became a mascot for the 43rd, a New England National Guard division, and he also scrubbed pots & pans in the mess tents. One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: "Sir, Japanese sniper-this way, please!" Often he slipped at night to his parents' home, returned with roasted chickens, fresh eggs and bucayo (bits of coconut fried in brown sugar) for his G.I. pals...
Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...
...Congress, the two hottest issues usually are aid to private schools, and discrimination. These two questions, of course, involve prejudices of a stronger nature than the traditional and often rhetorical fear that if states are forced to meet national administrative standards, they will be crawling into a federal ambush...
...governor, as a last resort, busted Calamity Jane Russell out of jail and offered her a pardon if she caught the outlaws. Jane married a traveling dentist, Painless Peter Potter, for a blind and tipped off the crooks that he was the Federal. The two race through an ambush, two dozen gunfights, a chase, and an Indian war dance before they finally escape from the crafty redmen and foil the outlaws. It's a frantic plot, and it's played strictly for the laughs...