Word: bayoneted
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...employ two systems. First, wait till the sun comes out, then pull forth the bayonet and shake it over the head so the Italians can see the gleams. Then put the bayonet on the rifle. Second, gather shoulders-to-shoulders, take a deep breath and together shout: 'Aera! Aera!' " Aera means "wind...
...Russians showed the utmost tenacity," wrote Napoleon's General Armand de Caulaincourt, as any D.N.B. reporter might have this week. "Their ranks did not break; pounded by the artillery, sabered by the cavalry, forced back at the bayonet-point by our infantry, their somewhat immobile masses met death bravely, and only gave way slowly before the fury of our attacks. . . . Several times he [Napoleon] said to . . . me: 'These Russians let themselves be killed like automatons . . . this does not help...
Reporting by official and neutral news agencies was dreamy, unreal, ridiculously ironic. D.N.B. told of Alpine troops fighting on Ukraine's plains; Tass described Germans rushing into battle "in a drunken condition," Rumanians being pushed into battle at the bayonet's point; and though there had never been such vastnesses, the world's press was overfed with vignettes -a number of Russian peasants capturing three parachutists, two planes dropping eight bombs which killed a postman and burned two barns at Tammisaari, Finland...
...shots shattered Inglewood's tense morning. Most serious casualty was one picket, who was reported cut by a bayonet. A few hours after two battalions of troops had taken over, workers were streaming through the gates, and Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Branshaw, in command, announced that the tie-up was over. Some 2,000 workers, about one-quarter normal complement for the shift, were back inside, limited production had been resumed. Unless there was a new outburst, North American would soon be back at top-speed operation...
...troops, who had been fighting day & night for two weeks straight, tumbled into ditches as the Nazi strafers made at them, then scrambled up to pot the advancing tanks or bayonet their way out of traps. As the forces fell back toward wedge-shaped Attica, it became evident that the bulk of them could get clear only if the rearguard made a magnificent stand. Sir Thomas decided that historic Thermopylae pass was the spot. He ordered the chosen few: "Every man must now do his job with strong determination. Select positions with care, and so prevent the enemy from coming...