Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command of the commanding general, Sixth Army, each of you is hereby taken into custody," barked Captain Walter R. Leahy. "You are further advised that court-martial charges have been preferred against you ..." When the captain finished reading the charges, three husky MPs stepped up to the young men and marched them off to a weapons carrier. Minutes later, the forbidding gates of the prison compound at Fort Baker clanked shut behind them...
After three days of the bloodiest rioting Casablanca had seen since 1952, ten Europeans and at least 20 Moroccans were dead, more than 100 wounded. Casablanca was under martial law; tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets and surrounded the native quarters. Grandval announced grimly that he would continue the policy of moderation he had begun. Unhappily, for a man with no time to lose, too much time had already been lost...
...with expression of mock horror, then grinned and said: "No, I just think that Congress, when it wants to, can do an awful lot in a very short time, and I am hopeful that they will do so." Coolly, the President answered a question about his surprise proclamation of martial law during last month's civil-defense test. He had taken no advance briefing on the test problems he was to face-"because . . . decisions should be made in the proper atmosphere of urgency ... I was suddenly told that 53 of the major cities of the U.S. had either been...
...voting in Chinese elections or serving in the armed forces. From authorities in Hong Kong they got one-way travel permits and third-class tickets aboard the President Cleveland, bound for San Francisco. When the 21 chose Communism, Defense Secretary Wilson had ordered them dishonorably discharged without court-martial, an unprecedented and possibly illegal move that has yet to be tested in court. Under truce-agreement guarantees, they can never be prosecuted for their choice. But they may have to stand trial for crimes in prison, along with hundreds of other returned "progressive...
...massed band, from whose front line of trumpeters fluttered scarlet banners and golden tassels, struck up a martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...