Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strange Quiet. After Cairo's violence had run its course, with an estimated 62 dead, the Wafdist (Nationalist) cabinet finally bestirred itself. Its leaders went to the palace, and winning Farouk's approval, clapped all Cairo under martial law. Curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. was imposed; the press was put under censorship...
Last week the Royal Canadian Navy was redfaced and backing water. In naval barracks near Victoria, B.C., a court-martial sat in judgment on the surgeon lieutenant who called himself Joseph Cyr. He was charged with fraudulent entry into the navy because that was not his name: he had borrowed it, along with copies of medical credentials, from a real Joseph C. Cyr who practices in Grand Falls, N.B. The court's sentence: "Discharge with disgrace" (a shade less disgraceful than a "discharge with dishonor...
...starts out simply enough: "We are a pious people but a proud one too, aware of a noble lineage and a great lineage and a great inheritance... we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the martial cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?" He aswers his question: "Not by two-thirds...
Disregarding these elements of personal taste, his book serves several useful functions. It dispels the theory that a martial cannot be shaken. It ridicules the theory that a woman cannot make a martial. And it warns against leaving the mixed gin and Vermouth in the icebox or mixing more than you need for a particular round...
...elections over, and martial law reimposed, the President got ready...