Word: bayonetting
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...knew that the words he had chosen the night before would be heard by the world. On the speaker's platform were turbaned Arab leaders and the U.S. and British Ministers, Robert Murphy and Harold Macmillan, instruments of pressure for the liberalization of the Giraud regime. Freshly barbered, bayonet-straight in a tan uniform with five stars twinkling on each sleeve, Giraud strode to the platform. Green-bereted members of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse swung bugles high and blasted a march tune in his honor...
...Your father has sent you your best hunting knife. And since you have open season all year round down there, he is making another knife for you from an old bayonet...
...Guts at both ends of the bayonet" is their school motto. A pregraduation demonstration last week at Camp Forrest, Tenn. showed how they lived...
...Americans want to take their positions with a minimum number of casualties, not from fear but because of a desire to finish the job with a strong force still in hand. The Australians want to get the job over. The majority of Australian objectives have been gained with bayonet charges. Both methods are achieving their purpose, and the slow grip of strangulation tightens round Japan's last Papuan garrison. It is a tougher fight than anyone expected, and it is a longer job. The soldiers, American and Australian, now know they are not playing for marbles...
Said Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov: "When I think of Germans I can't control myself. I shake, my hands itch. I've got to shoot, or throw a grenade, or use a bayonet...