Word: ambushed
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...what most bothers parents today is the pop-culture ambush: the dirty ad in a football game, the gruesome trailer at a family comedy, the R-rated movie on a plane. The responsible answer is respect for context from entertainment megacorporations and more information for audiences. With Dexter, which carries a "mature themes" advisory before each episode, everyone knows what's coming. But to the PTC, as Winter says, "airing something more explicit with a better warning" is not enough...
...last interview with TIME, renegade East Timorese Military Police commander Alfredo Reinado boasted that so good were his ambush and surveillance skills that he could sneak into the bedrooms of his country's leaders. "If I want to, I can kiss them while they are sleeping," he said in a July 2007 meeting in the heart of the Timor jungle...
...March 23, 2003, a convoy of the United States Army’s 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq by Saddam Hussein’s forces. In the course of the ambush, the Iraqi forces employed rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, and even tanks to attack a small column of supply trucks that had taken a wrong turn into enemy territory. The ambush cost the United States eleven of its finest and also resulted in the capture of seven brave American soldiers, including the now-famous Jessica Lynch...
...Admittedly, the circumstances that permitted the ambush were unfortunate. But ineffective weaponry, more than bad luck, was what left the 507th defenseless in the face of the enemy. In Lynch’s case, her standard-issue M16A2 rifle had jammed so badly that it was “about as useful as a hockey stick...
...campaign. And that's the only way he can win." Troops decimated, supply lines smoldering, McCain returned to the campaigning he knows and loves best. "He put this campaign on his back," says Mark Salter, McCain's close aide, co-author and comrade through long hours spent lying in ambush. "He went out there and worked. Obama gets massive rallies, but McCain just wins them one guy at a time...