Word: bayoneted
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From Shanghai, too, came reports reflecting the unbelief of foreigners 575 miles from the scene of battle in the strength of China's new armies. The facts, however, were bright as a bayonet...
...legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet point and those who are rubber stamps for union politicians...
Chistov, a factory worker, is mastering the art of sniping; Michurin, a lathe operator, has mastered the heavy machine gun and can riddle stationary or moving targets by day or night; Afinogenov, a bookkeeper, can toss a hand grenade 40 yards. Workmen of the Savin factory practice bayonet drills every day after hours. Bernadsky, a professor at the Herzen Institute, practices with rifle and hand grenade along with the rest of the staff. In the textile mills, Weaver Nikitina, Spinner Vasileyeva, Winder Zhdanova and Piecer Isayeva are busy teaching their fellow workers first...
Thus, in extremity, did Klimenti Voroshilov ring in the old, beloved duty: manning the barricades. The Neva's left bank, scene of bloodshed in two Russian revolutions, was changed to a training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...
...Germans cannot do the bayonet with us," he continued. "They are not humanistic, they are mechanistic. They are chauffeur. During the last eight days we could get no food, no ammunition to the front, because the mules are all dead. From the front we receive telegram: 'Our eyes are drained from crying, please give us the order what to do.' From Athens we send 600 donkeys with the food and the ammunition. The spies advise the Germans and they kill the little donkeys from...