Word: bayonetted
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...grievous. When the Government general heard the story of the old woman who had been beheaded on Chen's order, he cried, "Really, it's hard to be kind to such people. We must make an example!" No heavy sword or ax could be found. A bayonet was considered, then rejected. Finally a heavy, short-bladed sickle, used to harvest wheat, was fashioned into an executioner's tool. While fellow informers watched, Hunchback Chen's head was hacked...
...would not envision any military formations of any sort after a peace treaty. Bayonet control would be a mockery...
Hours before the ceremony, Perón's descamisados (shirtless ones) had packed in behind the double row of steel-helmeted, bayonet-bearing soldiers who lined the 14-block Avenida de Mayo from the stone-columned Chamber of Deputies to the pink-plastered Casa Rosada. Some had camped there the night before. One Perón idolater had dragged a great, 100-lb. wooden cross from seaside Mar del Plata 300 miles away...
...playmate is little, dark-haired Don Perone, former New England featherweight champ, who has lived in Iturbi's Beverly Hills mansion for six months. Iturbi employs him as coffee-pourer and sparring partner, and rewards him with singing lessons. Although Perone was wounded at Salerno by a bayonet that pierced his stomach, Amateur Boxer Iturbi has persuaded Perone to return to the ring. Perone will make the great sacrifice next month against a local fighter selected by Iturbi. He would much rather sing...
Joseph E. Hicswa, chubby-cheeked and 20, from Wallington, N.J., was a private in the Army. Last week he stood before a military court in Osaka. Its eight judges had found him guilty of stabbing two Japanese to death with his bayonet. The crime, they said, was "premeditated, vicious and unprovoked," and Private Hicswa was sentenced...