Word: ambushings
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These words were hardly out of Sheriff Blair's mouth before three carloads of his men were ambushed from behind piles of railroad ties along the road out of Evarts. Under a rain of lead two deputy sheriffs dropped dead, two others fell severely wounded. A commissary clerk was also killed. Though the deputies sprayed the ambush with their automatic rifles, they got only one of the 100 attackers. Sheriff Blair was alarmed. No longer confident that he could handle "this thing'' alone, he telephoned to Governor Flem Sampson at Frankfort for aid. Not until a petition...
Your broadcast March 20-superb. Courtroom audioscenes perfect. Introduction of military in ambush well done . . . but can it be you had to borrow Collier Hour Girl for ambush play? . . . Present hour too late. . . . Great compliment to Columbia-your selecting them...
...Gray Lacefield came through the war unhurt. But before they got home again the Yankees had been there and had not left much to come back to. When the reconstructed Negroes got uppity Miltiades organized and headed the local Ku Klux Klan. Then Polycarp was shot from ambush. Marcia had little excuse left for not marrying A. Gray, but at the last minute was won by Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought in the Northern army. With his family scattered, his property dwindling, his position gone, 01' Pap Vaiden went feebly to work again at his long-disused forge...
Same day a band of 100 Nicaraguan insurgents twice attempted to raid the Guardia Nacional barracks at Quilali, were beaten off. Three days later a Marine patrol under Captain Ernest L. Russell, scouting for the band that had wiped out the repair crew, fought off an ambush of 150 outlaws, but not before two Marines had been wounded...
...most accomplished warriors are allowed to go on a head-hunt. As soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets...