Word: ambusher
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Most lucrative plum--the George B. Sohier Prize, worth $250 for the "best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature"--went to McArthur for his essay "Saints in Ambush." Haas was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize--$75--for his essay "The Monk and Don Juan" in the field of Spanish Literature of the Golden...
...against the Viet Minh* revolutionary party, headed by a clever 55-year-old goat-bearded Communist, Ho Chih-minh. Did military progress mean much? A few weeks ago, miles inside the French lines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, riding in a French military convoy, came upon the scene of an ambush. The rebels had blown up the convoy ahead of him, killing 48 persons, some horribly. Sherrod cabled this impression...
...implacable conspiracy of persecution against you. It is these unknown powers that condemn you to be treated by a doctor you instantly recognize as a notorious murderer. They are the ones who arrange the subtle changes in weather that oppress you so much, who turn your home into an "ambush," who make your simplest acts and thoughts incomprehensible...
...terribly gay-the hosts had prepared a delightful little ambush for us on the edge of town. . . . The town was decorated with white flags and all the houses had red crosses painted on the roofs-an open city in the best Geneva Convention style...
...Remagen bridge was taken. Another Allied force had secured a bridgehead near Andernach. Between these two points, Nazi troops in the Eifel mountains had ample room for retreat. Yet because Annie hinted that there was only one way out, most of the remaining Wehrmacht marched right into an Allied ambush...