Word: ambusher
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...Bernal Cordovez, a mechanic in the printing plant of El Siglo. The woman insisted that he had appeared in Gaitán's office shortly before the shooting, and had given his name as Roa Sierra (the real Roa had been waiting downstairs to ambush Gait...
...frequently discovered soldiers' wives and concubines disguised in army uniforms. Some Chinese even blamed the disaster of Shihchiachuang last year on the women. A Nationalist army, moving north from that strategic city, was so encumbered by carts bearing wives and household possessions that it blundered into a Communist ambush, was destroyed in a three-day fight. A week later, undermanned Shihchiachuang fell, the greatest single government loss...
Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
...line of U.S. Army cavalrymen, trotted back down the line and reined in beside me. 'A white horse in the advance guard,' he muttered. 'Officers smoking cigarettes. Troops chattering. No security patrols out on the flanks. We're a sitting target if anyone cares to ambush...
...Passover ambush was the signal for a general uprising in the Warsaw ghetto; 50,000 Jews, all that remained of half a million originally herded behind the ghetto walls, had decided that, since they were to die, they would not die tamely. The Germans brought re-enforcements from Galicia; waves of bombers swept over the defenseless ghetto, raining incendiaries and high explosive. It took them 42 days to level every building. A few hundred Jews-all that were left of the 50,000 in the ghetto six weeks before-escaped through the sewers to join the guerrillas...