Word: ambusher
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...parliamentary majority. Just as the oaths were being completed, an official raced up with a message. Andreotti's face froze. The news: Aldo Moro, 61, chairman of the ruling Christian Democratic Party and a five-time past Premier, had been kidnaped moments before in a machine-gun ambush. A commando team of twelve terrorists had shot and killed five police bodyguards, grabbed Moro and escaped into city traffic...
...frontier capitalism. He applauds liberals-writing their concerned letters to the editor, demanding more government and less repression, peering worriedly at the future. To Morgan these factions do not reveal a paralysis of opposed fears but a lively and profitable ferment. Wonderful! he marvels, as environmentalists and exploiters ambush each other in federal court. The system works...
...main road to walk into the jungle. There they may remain for two or three weeks without relief or resupply, living off the land or out of their rations (including rice and a thick African cornmeal paste called sadza). Whether tracking guerrillas by day or setting up ambush positions at night, the "troopies" communicate by hand signals as they search out foot and boot prints, bowed grass, broken camps or other varieties of "terr spoor," army slang for terrorist tracks. Says Major James Cromar, 43, a reserve commander stationed near the Mozambique border: "We have created a top-rate bush...
Kosinski does not parade his pessimism; it lies in ambush throughout Blind Date. The novel's thrust-that life is a series of blind dates beyond human planning-will strike some as appalling and others as too simple by half. But the vitality and inventiveness that Kosinski crams into a dead end are as irresistible as ever. -Paul Gray
...first, his primary duty was to attend to the wounded among the group; when the original force was whittled down to ten men, he had to take up the gun. Che would recount later that he had been carrying two packs when his column came under ambush. He had a decision to make, as his asthma would allow him to run with only one. He laid down the pack full of medicines and surgical supplies to run with the one filled with vital ammunition. From then on he was a revolutionary...