Word: bayonetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowly moving stream. V. M. Chernov came down from the platform, rolling his papers into a cylinder. We walked off to the coat racks together. The sentries did not stop anyone, but I heard a remark aimed at Chernov: "There's someone for the point of a bayonet...
...simplest countermeasure, says Klass, is radio jamming that drowns out enemy radar or communications by brute electronic force. This sort of thing is now considered as crude as bayonet fighting. The modern objective is to blind the enemy, make him see double or lead him astray, preferably without letting him know that anything is amiss...
...Governor Luther Hodges. "I am the governor of a state where I don't intend for federal troops to ever march," throbbed Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, tears welling out of his eyes. "Law and order in Tennessee will be preserved for Tennesseans. Is a bayonet going to be the bookmark of Southern education...
...Lewis, who retorted that not one but two statutes were involved, and that both "trace all the way back to 1792." Undaunted, Lawrence in his next column argued that the 14th Amendment, "allegedly forbidding segregation," was "ratified illegally by the pressure of military force." Thus, concluded Lawrence, "government by bayonet has superseded government by the laws of Congress in supposedly free America...
...Russell, a sharp blast would be heard with respectful attention. One day last month Dick Russell put on a brand-new, dark blue (his best color) suit, took the Senate floor to denounce the civil rights bill as nothing but another Reconstruction-style force bill, "cunningly contrived," based on bayonet rule, and designed to "destroy the separate system for the races on which the social order of the Southern states is built...