Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like millions of others, he was awed by the martial atmosphere which brooded over the city during the convention and the brutality of Chicago's police force. But from his professional point of view--as producer of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report -- Northshield was as much disturbed by the violent reaction to NBC's coverage of Chicago...
...that's the whole trip right there. We were prisoners. Elvis released us. Frank Sinatra said that Elvis' sound was the "Martial music of every juvenile delinquent in the country." He was righter than he knew. We were all juvenile delinquents. These boots are made for walking, Frankie baby...
...egged on by Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into factions to fight each other. In an effort to avoid martial law, the government forged a new weapon: the Workers' Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams, which were made up of elite industrial workers backed up by army "instructors." The teams were finally able to force the rival Red Guard factions into "threeway alliances" and to put them...
...court martial board at Fort Devens in Ayer, Mass., sentenced Kroll to three months of hard labor and forfeiture of $73 per month...
Female Conscripts. On the other side, the Viet Cong has taken full advantage of the martial tradition of Vietnamese women, a tradition that goes back to the two Trung sisters' fight to repel Chinese invaders in A.D. 39. Running short of male conscripts, the Communists have lately recruited all-female combat units. Women now make up an estimated one-third to one-half of V.C. main-force troops...