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Example sentences for: firefight

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The biggest news today is a startling development: British commandos, with U.S. logistic support and full NATO and Hague backing, moved in on two Bosnian Serb officials accused of war crimes, killing one in a firefight and capturing the other.
More hype for Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan . The opening scene is "an overture of pure cinema" and the climax an "almost unbearably thrilling firefight and demonstration of peak-form filmmaking."
In the 1980s, you never traveled alone in the countryside if you could possibly help it--you wanted help handy if you blundered into a firefight or a minefield.
Marines, the 1992 bombing in Aden, and especially the 1993 firefight in Somalia after which the United States "left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you."
Even more bizarre: As Mark Pendergrast writes in his book Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives , one participant in a support group for Vietnam veterans, Ed, recalled seeing a buddy's head explode during a firefight.