Word: bayoneted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unquestionably, the New York "Daily Worker" produced the most rhetorical news. "America's leading fascist employed everything except the jackboot, bayonet, and bludgeon . . .," began its lead paragraph...
...recruit in ten without a fourth-grade education, the U.S. Army announced a program of "transitional training" at seven training centers to give G.I.s book learning with their bayonet drill. The program will teach reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship, will take two to four weeks depending on how fast recruits pick up what they missed in school...
...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
...came to declare in dependence on Jan. 1, 1804, the illiterate Dessalines turned the task over to a patriot who declaimed that "to write the Act of Independence, we need the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen!" Dessalines made himself Emperor and slaughtered or exiled almost every white in Haiti...
With that, General Eisenhower strode toward the door of the conference room, grabbed the knob, flung the door open and stalked out, his back set like a fixed bayonet. As he left, the SHAPE staff-Americans and Europeans alike-broke into applause and then began to cheer. The door reopened. Eisenhower stood there, smiling. He bowed slightly and closed the door again. After that, there was no doubt about who was in charge...