Search Details

Word: bayonetted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...interesting than, say, Gidget in Poland, since Ilyich is always a pleasure to watch, but in this case the location is unworthy of him. The only time he could have been there is with the Red army invasion of 1920, so expect hidden justifications of post-1945 revolution at bayonet point...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...dinner speech, his death mask etched in mashed potatoes. He turns out to have been a major white-collar crook with, among other things, a far-flung gunrunning empire. The eponymous Abominable Man is, of all things, a police superintendent. After someone slices the man in half with a bayonet, Beck compiles an appalling dossier of his brutalities. Many instances are easily available in the Ombudsman's files, all marked "No action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martin Beck Passes | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...equal priority with government personnel if and when it came time to run. Pan American last week managed to operate two scheduled flights into Saigon, even though the airline said that its Tan Son Nhut airport personnel were "trying to rush hundreds of passengers aboard airplanes" and "coping with bayonet-carrying MPs." Thursday's 373-seat Pan Am 747 flight, however, left with only 170 passengers aboard. One reason: some of the remaining Americans were making getaway plans and then postponing them. Explained one U.S. executive: "I'm afraid of the panic among the employees that might happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Executive Flight | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...birthday in 1945 and liberating Hermann Goring's outsized trousers ("That's a lot of pants," O'Daniel crowed). His militant anti-Communism was honed by a postwar tour as military attache in Moscow and service in Korea, where he adopted the motto "Sharpen Your Bayonet." In 1954, he was asked by President Eisenhower to train the South Vietnamese army. Iron Mike became a forceful advocate of the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam, calling it "a test of our guts and our resilience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 7, 1975 | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...Wallach has always possessed perfect comic pitch and he displays it again here. However, he lacks that certain panache which makes St. Pé a duelist with destiny rather than a Good Soldier Schweik taking fate's pratfalls. Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Black Farce | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Next