Word: bayonetted
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...quibble? The time has long passed when it was amusing to use Erich Segal for bayonet practice. The boy from Brooklyn, N.Y., who became an Ivy League classics professor and bestselling author, tells a good story, or rather he pictures one. His narrative technique is more cinematic than literary. In addition, Love Story and its sequel Oliver's Story owed their popularity to one of Hollywood's most successful formulas. Like the old immigrant movie moguls, Segal has a shrewd instinct for providing audiences with idealizations of America's traditional affluent classes. There can be trouble...
...first it seemed that physique would be the only problem. Most women have less upper-body strength than men. If women are judged by the same physical standards as men, most will fail. So the Point substituted the flexed-arm hang for pull-ups. For bayonet training, it equipped the women with a lighter rifle, the 6.5-lb. M-16 instead of the 9-lb. M-14. Separate track and swimming events for women were added to intramural tournaments in place of the contact sports in which women may not take part (football, boxing and wrestling...
...which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because, it is said, people fear grenade throwing. Next to the movie posters are government placards showing a turbaned official Afghan hero thrusting his bayonet at a Chinese "hegemonist" and at a terrified Uncle...
...Germanic pride. "Iron youth be comes iron heroes." They are sent to the Western Front, where they find that iron, like everything else, quickly disintegrates in the trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach, his comrade will get you. A shovel, on the other hand, can take your enemy's head off in one quick motion, leaving you free to defend yourself. The veteran and Paul Baumer, the youthful...
...Khomeini fired off angry telegrams of protest to the Shah. At this point, for the first time since the days of Mossadegh, university students in Tehran came to the support of the clergy against the Shah. Khomeini wrote to then Premier Asadollah Alam: "My heart is ready for the bayonet of your troops. I shall never keep quiet " By the spring of 1963, Khomeini was preaching to crowds of 100,000 in Qum, telling them that only "a flick of the finger" was necessary to sweep the Shah away...