Word: bayonetting
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...sounds of scuffling emerged, one photographer pointed his camera through the window at a horrific scene: one of the men was holding Nagano in an armlock while the other brandished a bloody bayonet. Moments later the men emerged from the room covered with blood, and announced: "We stabbed him." Nagano lay dead from 13 wounds. Then the two killers, whose motive is still being investigated, calmly awaited the arrival of the police...
...five companies of troops and a military band fell into line outside a San Salvador funeral home, a casket the color of a polished bayonet was lifted into the hearse. Fifteen minutes later, the somber parade arrived at the Church of Perpetual Help. The pews filled quickly. President José Napoleón Duarte slipped in by a side aisle, while U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering took a seat near the back. All had come to honor Lieut. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, a man whose title only partly explained his importance. "Domingo was a good man," said the Rev. Manuel Vega...
...harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan's new interventionism," Thomas Eagleton of Missouri said it represented "a trigger-happy foreign policy," and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted: "I don't know that you restore democracy at the point of a bayonet." House Democrats were initially more muted, with Speaker Tip O'Neill contending that criticism was inappropriate while the fighting was under way. But once the battle on the island was winding down, O'Neill declared, "We can't go the way of gunboat diplomacy. His policy is wrong...
...Party, which advocates a mixture of socialism and Arab nationalism. After the Baathists seized power in 1963, Assad became general of the air force, then Minister of Defense. In 1970, living up to his name, which translates as "lion," Assad staged his own coup. Hisback as straight as a bayonet, Assad looks and acts like the military man he once was. He neither smokes nor drinks, and often toils late into the night. He and his wife do not live lavishly, though one of their children, Basil, 19, can occasionally be spotted tooling around Damascus in his Porsche. Taciturn...
...George Washington nurtured his friendships with Virginia's revolutionary leaders, and took military commissions that sent him to the frontier in the French and Indian War. Did Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, beset by European complaints about burgeoning U.S. deficits, know that his earliest counterpart, Alexander Hamilton, commanded the bayonet attack on the British redoubts at Yorktown, only 13 miles from Wiliiamsburg, in the decisive battle of the Revolution...