Word: snipering
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Perhaps because of these rumors, or maybe because someone thought I knew too much, a sniper took a few rifle shots at me on a moonless night last week. Rolling into a ditch, I crawled to the safety of a tree. The incident was a good warning, and a powerful indication of the seriousness of the situation and the bitterness of the struggle...
...they spies disguised as guests? Men the shape of heavyweight boxers are disguised as women. Who is who? Nobody will ever know. A chance remark about the difficulty of getting duck causes panic and consternation, since one of the guests, who has ears like headphones and eyes like a sniper's, is clearly the representative of the unmentionable absent reality-Big Brother. Somebody offers an explanation. Food distribution in the cities should not be underestimated. "Duck, chicken, even goose, and even the rarest bird in the world, the turkey, are sold ... as much as you like." At this officially...
Some of the captured marines told a confused and hardly believable story: they had been hoodwinked by their officers and thought they were fighting for the government, not against it. Under no such illusions, the civilians were sullenly unrepentant. A youth of 16 stepped from his sniper's post and handed his automatic rifle to the soldiers. "Do what you want to me," he said. "I've already killed seven men." It took two more days to chase the last snipers into the hills around Puerto Cabello...
Sweet Clarity. Blizzards of shrapnel tear words out of sentences. A thought is splintered with the crack of a sniper's rifle...
...major policy speech in which he declared that the U.S. is determined to resist when ever the Communists wage such "wars of liberation," in which "the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action" and the tactics are those of "the sniper, the ambush and the raid, terror, extortion and assassination." These tactics will be countered, he said, not with massive forces and nuclear weapons, but "with companies and squads and individual soldiers...