Word: bayonet
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...directive. To hold his rank, he must pass a college test; to pass the test, he is bribing the post education officer with every last field jacket and wall locker in his supply room. Peter Fonda, an egghead private who goes psycho at the sight of an unsheathed bayonet, offers to tutor McGavin, and soon he is running a class for every Neanderthal man on the post...
...Most of Katanga's 634 white officers surrendered expeditiously and were promptly put under U.N. detention pending expulsion from Katanga. Others prudently went underground or sought asylum at Elisabethville's foreign consulates. The 11,600 black Katanga troops remained passive, possibly because U.N. soldiers staged ferocious public bayonet drills and small-arms exercises in a pointed show of power. Remarked one senior Indian U.N. officer...
...soaring sandstone Brandenburg Gate, thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist bayonet or a sudden blast from the powerful Wasserkanonen (water cannons), the wheeled squirters of the East Berlin riot squad that can topple...
...division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen. A fine private with his bayonet fixed...
...black body starkly thin against the white sheets, the speaker was Jean Felix, 22, a refugee from the nine-week-old revolt in Portuguese Angola. Two bayonet thrusts had gone completely through his chest; one had cut a kidney in half. He was recovering in the Christian Medical Institute Hospital at Kimpese in the Congo, 20 miles north of the Angola border...