Word: hit-and-run
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...smaller, though just as lethal, clashes between Palestinian activists and Israeli army patrols across the West Bank and Gaza. Some of the confrontations are initiated by "striking forces," groups of young men organized in nearly every Palestinian community. Instead of waiting for spontaneous outbursts, they mount hit-and-run raids designed to keep Israeli soldiers on edge. Other confrontations result from provocations by the army and by the Israeli policy of harsh reaction to the slightest sign of rebellion. Says a senior officer in Gaza: "The soldiers must run to every tire burning and stone throwing and chase the perpetrators...
...dynamic language speeds the plot along, even as the story line itself falters. McCoy's story is a conventional tale in which few of the characters surprise. As the result of a freak hit-and-run accident in Bronx, McCoy becomes embroiled in the farcical, gargantuan appartus of the municipal court system. And just as McCoy used people in his life to serve his own egotistical ends, so he in turn becomes the vehicle for power that Wolfe's other characters seek. McCoy is a tweedy sacrificial lamb, ritually slayed in a public forum...
...returned, apparently under a guarantee of immunity from prosecution. Saravia had also fled abroad. One night last week in Miami, Metro-Dade County police knocked on the door of his rented Kendall town house and lured him outside by claiming that his van had been involved in a hit-and-run accident. They were suddenly joined by U.S. marshals and immigration agents, who arrested him on a charge of overstaying his tourist visa. Since Garay had implicated him just hours before, the marshals felt they had to act before the suspect caught wind of the news and fled...
Wolfe's main conceit is that the upper classes are especially vulnerable to prejudicial treatment if they lose their insulation. Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue and Southampton, the leading bond salesman at Pierce & Pierce, learns this harsh lesson when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving and plummets from a "Master of the Universe" to "the Great White Defendant," the dream of every ambitious $36,000-a-year assistant district attorney...
...should use its massive air and naval advantage to engage in hit-and-run tactics against this piddling power. Unlike Vietnam, the U.S. would neither have to occupy territory nor pursue any longterm strategic goals. The effort would be purely symbolic...