Word: bayonetting
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...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
...came to declare in dependence on Jan. 1, 1804, the illiterate Dessalines turned the task over to a patriot who declaimed that "to write the Act of Independence, we need the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen!" Dessalines made himself Emperor and slaughtered or exiled almost every white in Haiti...
With that, General Eisenhower strode toward the door of the conference room, grabbed the knob, flung the door open and stalked out, his back set like a fixed bayonet. As he left, the SHAPE staff-Americans and Europeans alike-broke into applause and then began to cheer. The door reopened. Eisenhower stood there, smiling. He bowed slightly and closed the door again. After that, there was no doubt about who was in charge...
ARMY SERGEANT HIROSHI H. MIYAMURA, 27, a Nisei, of Gallup, N. Mex.: ". . . Wielding his bayonet in close hand-to-hand combat, killing approximately ten of the enemy . . . bayoneted his way through infiltrated enemy soldiers to a second [machine] gun emplacement and . . . killed more than 50 of the enemy...
...marines from the ist Marine Division were captured by Communists while on patrol near Nakchon Dong, Jan. 29, 1951. Recovered corpses showed that the prisoners had been stripped and bound, bayoneted in back and chest. Later a North Korean officer, captured by U.N. forces, admitted that each prisoner was ordered to sit on the ground and then used by Communist soldiers for bayonet practice...