Word: ambusher
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...Auden is a textbook case drawn largely from the poet's autobiography-of-sorts, A Certain World. The book is an alphabetical listing of subjects close to Auden's heart, and the psychological evidence is so blatant that one should expect an ambush. Edel plunges ahead. Under "Castration Complex," he finds a reference to "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb," whose mother warns him that he will lose his favorite fingers if he does not stop his infantile habit. He does not, and in comes "the great, long, red-legged scissors-man" to carry out the sentence...
Alfred Hitchcock mastered this effect: a fool acts huffy in a dangerous situation (a battle, an ambush). He protests the noise and inconvenience while the bullets pop around him, and the audience chuckles at his posturing. Then suddenly this character is shot; in The Lady Vanishes (1938) he examines the blood from his own wound. All at once the audience is not laughing any more. It realizes that what seemed hilarious a moment ago was never really funny in the first place because the context was not funny, because nothing can ever be funny when death is possible. To bring...
...rural Chalatenango department, meanwhile, four Dutch television journalists seeking to film rebel encampments were killed, possibly in an army ambush. Their deaths highlighted the perils facing the scores of foreign reporters who have flocked to El Salvador to cover the continued fighting (see PRESS...
...Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran unit isn't trained to patrol. It doesn't ambush. It doesn't harass. It doesn't pursue. They've never
...Maldonado campaigners have traveled 8,000 miles and reached more than 200 of Guatemala's 326 villages in a dusty parade of vehicles crawling over the jagged rock and dirt trails that pass for roads in the remote areas. On one occasion, they even foiled an ambush apparently intended for them: after being followed too long by the same cars, they set up a roadblock and surprised their pursuers, discovering an arsenal of weapons and explosives. The men were carrying police identity cards. Such dangers have hardened the Christian Democrats into political missionaries...