Word: ambusher
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When Irishmen speak of the two years of murder, massacre, ambush and reprisal that marked Ireland's last and most successful rebellion (1919-21), they call it, with resigned racial euphemism, "the trouble." Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...
Philip Fox La Follette, onetime (1931-33) Progressive Republican Governor of Wisconsin, said that two masked men waited in ambush for him at a Lake Geneva, Wis. cottage, went away before he returned late from a political meeting. Said Progressive La Follette to newshawks: "I want you fellows to know that the mere fact that there are a couple of fellows hanging around with guns is not going to prevent me from continuing to expound my economic and political theories...
...years later in a celebrated clash with Governor Roland Hartley who. resenting an old difference, also disliked Dr. Suzzallo's urbane way of wheedling fat appropriations from legislatures (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Died. Thomas Price, 59, retired railroad man, philanthropist, animal lover; when he was fired on from ambush while riding with two companions (both of whom were wounded), on the 1,200-acre estate near Wuynesville, N. C. which has been his summer home for 25 years. Few hours later a mountaineer named Dewey Potter, who had been fined for poaching on the Price estate, and two others...
...taxi driver and his passenger leaped from their cab, began dancing up & down in the road, waving their arms at an army airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head-on toward it was the taxi. The sedan driver headed straight...
...demanded a payment of $50,000 in addition to the $50,000 they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name of a man connected with Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang. Newsmen discovered that 300 policemen had been organized for the trapping, but that unfortunately their sealed...