Word: ambushings
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Like a man recalling an oft-repeated dream, he speculated that the disaster might have been turned into a victory if he had been properly advised: he would have "gone to sea" with the fleet, stood ready to ambush the Japanese task force...
...Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand, she told him to stop, get out and buy her some candy. He called the cops, then drove her on into a police ambush at Madill, Okla. Eva surrendered meekly-the pistol was unloaded. "I was tired of school," she said, "and I decided to be an outlaw." ¶ At Bangor, Me., 14-year-old Francis Edwin Varney was charged with murdering his 12-year-old sister with a sharp kitchen knife...
...Allen became General George Patton's G2, lost his right arm last April when he drove into an ambush in Germany. Three days later, when Patton's Army caught up with him, he had taken over the hospital at Gotha, was bossing its German doctors and nurses...
...Given the U.S. full advanceinformation on the size of the Jap forces advancing on Midway, enabled the Navy to concentrate ships which otherwise might have been 3,000 miles away, thus set up an ambush which proved to be the turning-point victory of the Pacific...
Last week an exhibition of De Creeft's latest liberations opened in a Manhattan gallery. It proved that he does find his figures in stones, and keeps them there. Anyone could tell that his Aux Aguets (In Ambush) had been carved from a round boulder. His figures had none of the hovering aliveness of Epstein's Lucifer, nor did they seem to think and gesture as some 15th-Century German cathedral carvings do. They just lay around-like beautiful rocks...