Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millionaires!" Outnumbered police opened up with tear gas; the rioters replied with rock barrages, broke through police lines and drove off nine army trucks being used as barricades. The screaming, cursing clashes lasted all day and into the night, left scores of injured littering the wet pavement. Clamping on martial law in the capital, President Park ordered in thousands of army troops. The following day new riots erupted in twelve other cities; in Pusan, students fought the police for hours; in Kwangju, 165 miles south of the capital, 6,000 students sacked the provincial headquarters...
...sweeping the nation in 1947 under a talented organizer and ex-schoolteacher named Josei Toda. Soka Gakkai now claims 13 million members and 100,000 converts a month. While some critics question these figures, there is no doubt that the movement is gaining impressively. Last month, at ceremonies featuring martial bands, a waltz-playing orchestra, an all-girl chorus and sutra-chanting priests, Soka Gakkai formally dedicated a $4,500,000 recreation-and-worship center at the foot of Mount Fuji...
...degenerate endpoint of a noble line. His clothes are from Saville Row, his scotch Chivas Regal, his monogram everpresent. But the manorial estate has given way to a small, though stylish, townhouse in Chelsea; imperial conquests in India to idleness and empty dreams of developments in Brazil; and martial valor to frustrating skirmishes of lust. On every wall hang pictures of distinguished forebears; father against the Germans, grandfather in the Great War, great to the nth degree grandfather at Waterloo. Whereas his ancestors went to heaven fighting for England's glory, Tony heads for hell carrying his cannon...
...also wrote martial numbers and at least one symphony. Setting up his own studio in the palace, Sihanouk began producing motion pictures (for charity) starring himself, with a supporting cast of Cambodian civil servants. With characteristic impartiality, Sihanouk played both a detective and a villain...
President Johnson declared his "war on poverty" last week with all of the martial fervor of a 12th century crusader. "On many historic occasions," he told the Congress in a message accompanying his antipoverty bill, "the President has requested from Congress the authority to move against forces which were endangering the well-being of our country. This is such an occasion. Our objective: total victory...