Word: bayonetings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve the restraining order on the troopers and the Governor himself. Closeted in the statehouse in Montgomery, Wallace ordered his National Guardsmen to rout out the marshals, who were deployed on the capitol grounds waiting for him to come out. Then followed a comic-opera scene, with helmeted and bayonet-carrying guardsmen flushing sheepish marshals out of the bushes and sending them on their...
...them with contingents of the National Guard. Early the next morning, President Kennedy signed a proclamation that federalized the guard. On his orders, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara simply retired the guardsmen to their armories. Wallace, shorn of his troops, gave up with a whimper. "I can't fight bayonets with my bare hands," he cried, ignoring the fact that there had not been a federal bayonet to be seen anywhere...
...Bayonet Brotherhood." On the other side, white pros did their job with anguished cries. Mayor Arthur Hanes complained about "bayonet brotherhood." He was infuriated by President Kennedy's order-sending 3,000 troops to Army bases near Birmingham after the Mother's Day bombings. The President had said, "This Government will do whatever must be done to preserve order, to protect the lives of its citizens, and to uphold the law of the land...
Whatever the results of this peace bid tendered on a bayonet, India will never be the same again, nor will Nehru...
...quiet seclusion. The still spry Gimo requested that there be no public celebrations, but 30,000 Formosans jammed into the Presidential Mansion grounds to sign traditional congratulatory scrolls; across the island there were youth rallies, mass choral concerts and, with an eye to the Reds across the strait, mass bayonet exercises. In lieu of birthday cake, all the guests at restaurants, public luncheons and dinner parties were served long, flat noodles, a Chinese symbol of longevity...