Word: bayonetting
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...reputation in the Korean War as the only woman correspondent on the scene. At first, the U.S. Army wanted no women reporters at all and ordered her out of the country. Getting wind of this, a Soviet magazine gleefully ran a cartoon showing her being ejected from Korea at bayonet point. The caption: "MacArthur's first victory." But it was the general who capitulated. Maggie confronted him in Tokyo and complained: "I am not in Korea as a woman but as a war correspondent." Mac rescinded the order and let her return...
...Bayonet Rule. Now, still alert and spry at 84, Kerensky has written a book that is part autobiography, part a narrative history of how he rose to power and ruled Russia for 31 fleeting months before he was overthrown. Three months later Red sailors forced their way into the Constituent Assembly and overthrew the elected government. His "turning point" is not the usual, lumped-together Russian Revolution as a whole; rather, it is the catastrophic overturn of his humanist, basically democratic regime by what turned out to be the brutal, wholly totalitarian Bolsheviks. It is a point the world...
...Closer to the coast, northeast of An Khe, thousands of troops from the 1st Cavalry joined Vietnamese army and marine units in a far more important drive called Operation Shiny Bayonet. Three waves of B-52 bombers and a blistering artillery bombardment plastered the landing zones before the Americans swept in by helicopter in what might become the largest operation of the war so far. Eight troop-carrying choppers were hit by ground fire, but resistance was light as the operation began; by nightfall of the first day, the 1st Cavalrymen were hot on the heels...
...Real Risks." To back up Lo's bluster, Red China passed the word that its 200 million-man (and woman) militia had gone into serious training. The mainland press reported shrilly that units on the Yunnan border were engaged in intensive bayonet and machine-gun drill; men and women in blue boiler suits marched briskly through Peking streets with rifles slung...
...former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled...