Word: bayonetings
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...French Union forces, whose tradition it is to charge to the call of a trumpet. Now, as the shrill trumpet echoed over the green jungle, the Vietnamese stormed the small hill where the Viet Minh had dug in. The fourth wave got in among the Reds with the bayonet. The fanatical young Communists died to the last man. By 5 p.m. the Legionnaires commanded the hilltops on either side of the road. The northern half of the severed French column could now come through...
...Biggest Fusser [i.e., Ladies' Man]." Hackney and Stevenson toured Spain in the summer of 1921, several times got into trouble when the locals mistook Stevenson's friendly remarks, delivered in faulty Spanish, for insults; after one such misunderstanding, the travelers were ejected from Burgos at bayonet point...
...camp's worst riots took place last fall. In mid-September the prisoners in one compound went on a rampage and drove their guards from the enclosure. Before the guards could be sent back in at bayonet point and behind a barrage of concussion grenades, the Communists dragged one suspected renegade to the fence, pulled out his tongue, cut it off with tin shears, then beat him to death...
...doing instead of letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from a ration can, one G.I. sighed happily: "Man, this is pure heaven...
Armaments Race. In Chicago, cops nabbed Michael White, 17, on his way to visit his girl friend at a home for juvenile delinquents, relieved him of i) three pistols, 2) a bayonet, 3)22 rounds of ammunition, 4) six switchblade knives...