Word: bayonetings
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...Serjeant Musgrave holds back, refuses to show the fury in the words he speaks. Musgrave is no apologist, he is as cheerless and pinched a revolutionary as ever you will find at a Progressive Labor meeting. When Jones rages about the stage in the third act, rifle butt and bayonet swinging in murderous passion, the play suddenly has a purpose and a center...
...true that cadets still must perform push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...
...fresh Pathet Lao offensive or merely a hunger strike, no one could say, but hunger undoubtedly played a part. With the rice crops off 35% because of the floods, the Communists will be forced this fall to probe deeper than usual into government territory in their annual harvesting by bayonet...
...hate Germans and imagining that they have guns. The dressing down the recruits get when they don't imagine hard enough is, however, real--they manage to convince you of that by sheer force of good acting. You won't see mime as good as their rendition of a bayonet charge for a long while...
...mainly to overcome its raw-materials deficit that Japan, in the name of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, once sent its armies on the march. After World War II, the Japanese turned from the bayonet to the bargaining table in their quest for raw materials, but until fairly recently they have relied mostly on piecemeal purchasing. Now they are moving toward longer-range development projects. Explains Saburo Tanabe, in charge of procurement for the huge Fuji Iron & Steel Co.: "The day of spot purchases is ending. The Japanese must go out and develop untapped resources, because this means...