Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeling not at all sure that it could count on the West, Israel battened down its hatches for trouble. It wanted peace but feared to sound weak, and stuck to its martial air in the week when the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned it for the fourth "flagrant violation" of the Palestine armistice in three years...
...will say of Washington. For a 1000 Leagues have nearly the same Effect with 1000 Years. The feeble Voice of those groveling Passions cannot extend so far either in Time or Distance. At present I enjoy that Pleasure for you: as I frequently hear the old Generals of this martial Country, (who study the Maps, and mark upon them all your Operations) speak with sincere Approbation and great Applause of your Conduct [as] one of the greatest Captains...
...French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...
Regarding your Dec. 26 review of The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell: throughout the years I've read Emile Gauvreau's and Lester Cohen's Billy Mitchell, Isaac Don Levine's Mitchell: Pioneer of Air Power and others. I do not recall any more than an unsubstantiated rumor that MacArthur voted for acquittal...
...other hand, it would be difficult to build a play around a man with no better justification. As it is, the gradual discovery of the major's true reasons makes excellent drama. Even a coincidence reminiscent of Hollywood--the general in charge of the major's court-martial had a son in the same prison compound--does not seem too obtrusive...