Word: bayonetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongest." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was visiting India. Although Nehru pointedly spent more time in the company of another visitor, his old friend Lady Mountbatten, Zhukov had a profitable week riding an elephant and showing Nehru's tough Indian cadets how to use a bayonet...
...spectacular airing in Massachusetts last week. In Boston, the governor's executive council of nine (lawyers and laymen, no judges) ended, with a dramatic reversal, a long debate with its collective conscience over the fate of Kenneth Chapin, 20, of Springfield, who two years ago used a bayonet to stab to death a 14-year-old baby sitter and her four-year-old charge.* What convinced the council was expert and dramatic psychiatric testimony...
Sentenced to death. Chapin appeared before a committee of the governor's council sitting as a pardons board. He could give no motive for the double killing beyond the fact that the baby sitter, Lynn Ann Smith, had screamed when she saw the bayonet in his hand. As he told it: "She opened the door, and the knife was in my hand, and she screamed. I was pushed from behind, or catapulted, but nobody was there." Asked whether he wanted his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, Chapin muttered: "Just as soon go, just as soon go." The council voted...
Behind Russian Lines. One day in 1942 Captain (ex-R.O.T.C.) Hoegh was leading his company in bayonet drill when the division commander spotted him. whisked him to division headquarters at G-3 (operations) and sent him off-a captain among colonels-to Command and General Staff School. He graduated in the top 10% of his class, soon went to Europe as operations officer for the 104th Infantry ("Timberwolf") Division, wrote the operations orders that carried the 104th through to the Rhine and into Germany. He won his medals-Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre with palm, Bronze Star with...
City Sticker. In Slough, England, after police caught him .carrying a gin. bayonet, Nicholas Smith told a magistrate's court: "I was going to London, and you know what life's like there...