Word: bayoneted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...division's proud, rugged commander, tall, slender, 38-year-old Major General James ("Slim Jim") Gavin, marched out into the avenue. The 82nd's bayonet-tipped phalanxes moved out behind him, and the cold wind sent a contagious roar of applause rolling for miles through the great city...
There was another difference. F.D.R., a great political tactician, had the knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...
...Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...
Once again Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey performed for the photographers. Aboard his flagship, the mighty Missouri, he used a bayonet to slice a cake iced like a Japanese flag. But he was unhappy. He was about to go into Japan, and almost everybody expected him to ride the Emperor's white horse when he got there...
...greatest Christian city in the Orient." It shows, still more dreadfully, the destruction wrought upon the mild, brave people who lived in it: children who were shot down as they prayed; gnarled stacks of bodies burned alive; people who were killed with their hands tied behind them; a bayoneted mother & child at the feet of the Virgin. It shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners...