Word: bayonetted
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...fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years?was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall yet capture Managua [the Constitutional capital of Nicaragua] and call new elections...
...speeches, editing his newspaper. Afraid of the world because of his deformities, he had injected his personality into Berthaud's handsome person, for which Berthaud had repaid him by stealing his pretty wife. Finding Berthaud in his bedroom, he had chopped off his head with a glittering bayonet...
Thus Minister Johnson turned the other cheek to 60 Japanese bluejackets who the night previous had climbed the high, spiked gate of the International Settlement near Soochow Creek and rushed with fixed bayonets upon a Chinese crowd technically under the protection of the 31st U. S. Infantry. Lunging at these Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish...
...Kiangwan (just beyond) within two hours. Advancing in skirmish formation, the Japanese soldiers prudently took cover behind each tree or hummock before advancing to the next, and ahead of them a Japanese barrage of overwhelming power advanced, blowing the Chinese out of their trenches. Thus there was very little bayonet work...
Tientsin, the third largest Chinese port, was suddenly occupied last week (to Tokyo's great satisfaction) by a Japanese force which took away all the local Chinese soldiers' and policemen's arms and forced the Mayor of Tientsin at bayonet's point to sign a paper...