Word: bayonetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made the 1924 Olympic squad as a 120-yard hurdler. He also saw action in Palestine, where he won a D.S.O. in guerrilla skirmishes against the Arabs. Palestine taught him "the mind and method of the guerrilla," and introduced him u) the Arab-Jewish...
...methods of Communist propaganda were employed at this rude camp: wall newspapers, political plays, tireless singing of Communist songs. When an informer was brought in, "after being burned with brands and beaten almost to death with rattans, [he was] finished off with a bayonet in the grave that had been prepared for [him]." Out of these surroundings came Chin Peng, slight, 31, pimply-faced, fanatical leader of the Malayan Communists, for whose capture the British will...
...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...