Word: bayoneted
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...words were blunt. "The glorious achievements of Chinese rule in Tibet," he said, were aimed at nothing less than "the extinction of the Tibetan race." In 1951 he had signed an agreement with Peking, but only to save his own people and only "at the point of bayonet." Even the official Tibetan seal affixed to the agreement was a forgery, and is still in Communist hands...
...built by Theodosius II. The mob charged Inonu's car, smashed in one of its windows with heavy rocks. Led by Republican members of the nation's Grand National Assembly, Inonu supporters counterattacked, and soon the place was a mass of brawling citizens, club-swinging cops and bayonet-wielding soldiers...
...bluff above Mosul. First they bombed it and then came in low to strafe. Six or seven officers were killed. Shawaf, wounded, staggered out of his command post, trying to bandage himself. One of his sergeants, figuring the game was up, finished him off with machine gun and bayonet...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a U.S. Air Force orchestra was on hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...continuation of basic training. The trainee fires weapons he only heard about in basic--the light machine gun, the recoiling rifles, the rocket launcher, the carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the foot soldier's most coveted award, beating out several combat veterans in the process...