Word: ambusher
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...were bombing from 20,000 feet and Balbo flew in at 2,000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor . . . opened fire and struck the Marshal's plane with a direct hit. . . . All this talk about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot. . . . He was really a first-class chap . . . and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business...
Stores of fodder blazed up in unspontaneous combustion. German supply trains met strange accidents. German columns fell into ambush. Temporary German bridges collapsed. Serious fighting broke out in many places hundreds of miles to the German rear...
Eight years ago, on their honeymoon, the Perelmans wrote another play, All Good Americans, which failed to come off. Later they collaborated on the script for Ambush, one of 1939's best pictures, and Mr. Perelman gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films. His best book (of four) was his first, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). On its jacket was the blurb: "This book does not stop at Yonkers." The Night Before Christmas does...
...morning last week, young Rockefeller left his Manhattan penthouse apartment to be inducted into the Army. Reporters were waiting on the sidewalk. At local draft-board headquarters Rockefeller stepped into an ambush of reporters,* cameramen, newsreel photographers, radio newscasters. Flashlight bulbs and questions popped all around him: what had he done the night before (visited his parents), when had he gone to bed (midnight), when did he get up (5:45), when did he usually get up (8 or 8:30), how much money did he have with him ("just pocket change"), did he like beans (yes), would he mind...
Armed with axes and spurred on by a wave of alcoholic enthusiasm, the three patriots climbed over all obstacles only to run into an ambush of Yale watchmen. The cops held on with bulldog ferocity, and finally escorted the miscreants to jail, where they remained until after midnight...