Word: bayonet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardest things a U. S. citizen can attempt in Russia is to convince the Soviet citizens he meets that Uncle Sam is not busy sharpening a bayonet which he means some day to plunge into the Russian Bear. Millions of Russians believe today in "the inevitability of the international class war": Communism v. Capitalism. Example: When the Naval Conference met in London, leading Moscow papers printed an "exposé" in which the "real purpose" of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald in calling the Conference was alleged to be the hatching of a plot for concerted action by the Capitalist Powers against...
Hunting Brazilian tigers as practiced by Alexander Siemel requires a few courageous mongrel dogs, a high-powered rifle with a bayonet attached or a six-foot spear. The dogs trail the tiger. If they tree it, Hunter Siemel shoots it through the head. (If shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill...
Hunter Siemel's best dog, Valente, found 64 tigers, was killed by the 65th. Hunter Siemel has killed altogether 107 tigers, three or four each month for the last two years. Of these, 90 died from one bullet in the brain, 17 he impaled with spear or bayonet...