Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diem's reply was to clamp virtual martial law over Saigon. All the city's main pagodas were sealed off, and barbed-wire barricades blocked off streets. On the radio, Diem blamed Quang Due's "tragic death" on "certain minds, poisoned by seditious propaganda." Refusing to yield to Buddhist demands, Diem added: "Buddhism in Viet Nam finds its fundamental safeguards in the constitution, of which I personally am the guardian...
...Manhattan for his American debut, his boat docked in a puddle of regulations. Not a word could be said of him until the clerks had had their day. When Union Card, Cabaret Card, and Social Security Card had legalized his presence at last, and the cognoscenti heard that Martial Solal was playing the piano at the Hickory House, the coolest ones dropped everything to go and hear...
Some Second Thoughts. At that point, the U.S. Government, apparently in an attempt to avoid handing Castro a propaganda weapon, continued the hush-up begun by Jackson and Szili. Jackson was denied a court-martial; its findings would have been public. Instead, Jackson, with only 18 months to go before completing 20 years of service and becoming eligible for a pension of $260 a month, was forced to resign from the Corps. So were Szili and two other officers who had helped bury Lopez. Jackson, said Szili, has made no public complaint because "he is a very patriotic...
Loyal Disciple. The rebel radio voice frenziedly called for the "people" to pour into the streets "to destroy the remnants of the Kassem regime." Between exhortations, martial music filled the air, especially songs extolling Arab unity, and Alahu Akbar (God Is Great), a favorite hymn of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Spaniards who tuned in on news broadcasts last week got the surprise of a quarter-century. Since Francisco Franco installed himself as Spain's dictator in 1938, every newscast had unfailingly ended with a ponderous salute to his Falangist Party and a martial rendition of the Falangist anthem. Last week, for the first time, news bulletins ended instead with a pleasant feminine voice bidding señores y señoras good day, followed by a few bars of a catchy paso doble...