Word: ambushings
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...Barrow called for an air strike and an artillery barrage. For 18 hours U.S. planes rained rockets, explosive bombs and napalm fire bombs on the area in front of Barrow's outfit. First scores, then hundreds, then thousands of Red soldiers were seen running from their place of ambush. When the holocaust was over, Barrow's company and the marines behind them walked through the wreckage...
Other casualties among correspondents in Korea last week were Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Jean de Premonville of Agence France-Presse, who were wounded slightly when they ran into a guerrilla ambush during a night drive from Yongsan to Pusan. Three other correspondents who were with them, including the New York Herald- Tribune's Homer Bigart, escaped injury...
Bumptiously Yours. Slowly, painstakingly, the two agents planned a night ambush. Hidden guerrillas lay at vantage points on the road to the villa, a buzzer and torch flashes relayed warnings of the general's approach to the waiting kidnapers, who were in German uniforms...
Hollywood was having a little trouble with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Incredible as it might seem, the life story of the late great Justice did not always conform to the censor's standard. Polishing up The Magnificent Yankee last week, Producer Armand (Ambush) Deutsch admitted that he had left out some of the great man's saltier habits "to avoid sidetracking our main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from...
...Mankiewicz and co-Scripter Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...