Word: bayonetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English mind of cant ... As a demolition expert he has no rivals: and we are being grossly irrelevant if we ask a demolition expert, when his work is done: "But what have you created?" It is like expecting a bulldozer to build the Tower of Pisa; or condemning a bayonet for not being a plough. Shaw's genius was for intellectual slum-clearance, not for town planning . . . If Chaucer is the father of English literature, Shaw is the spinster aunt. By this I do not mean to imply that he was sexless ... It is only in his writing that...
...visiting minister. Farther east, Ceylon's new Prime Minister had notified Britain that it must remove its forces from the base at Trincomalee. Talks on a new status for Singapore collapsed, and Chief Minister David Marshall departed, demanding: "How long can you keep Singapore with a bayonet?" Before long, Britain may have no secure base across the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean, from Aden to Australia...
...jackal howled as the Israeli troops fanned out to feint at the Egyptian flanks. As a flare burst over the 1,400-ft. hilltop, the Jewish infantry crawled past boulders to the attack. It was a hand-to-hand bayonet fight. The Egyptians resisted fiercely, and the hilltop did not fall until past midnight. By that time an Egyptian battalion spearheaded by eight tanks rolled up from the rear to counterattack. The Israelis said they knocked out two tanks before withdrawing downhill and into their own territory. They listed five dead, 18 wounded. They claimed 50 Egyptians killed, 49 taken...
...almost magically cajoled California into looking like China, with the gauzy seascapes, the abstract arrangements of seines in sunlight and the ochred skies. But the blunt point of the pictute is to display John Wayne to best advantage-stripped in a bathtub, bloody at the wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks him why he killed a Communist soldier, surely only Wayne could get away with that roast-of-beef expression and the puzzled reply: "Seemed like...
They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind. In the free U.S., anybody can speak his mind against the income tax. Few spoke loud enough to be heard...