[Ads-l] ambush 'a surprise military attack'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Seems to me that the 1941 means the usual ordinary "attack from hiding:
(here above the clouds)  and the 1914 means the usual "concealed position
from which to launch an attack"( here presumably above the clouds).

Of course, "from hiding" is a hyponym of "by surprise": hence the extension.

In contemporary minds.

JL


On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 1:12 AM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Aerial ambush" 1914. German Zeppelins over Antwerp.
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> https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38746220/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/
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> Yes!  I can just picture it:  the Japanese fleet cunningly hides behind
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> bushes while the island of Oahu stumbles into the ambush kill zone.
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> 2019 http://cinemalogue.com/2019/11/08/midway/  :
> The film starts with the ambush at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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> I posted an ex. of the corresponding verb in 2016.  I seem to recall some
> skepticism....
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