Word: martialled
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...built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after the group began to discuss "urban warfare" and "race riots and martial law," the ATF moved...
...former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, who shot himself before the Whitewater investigation; John Hemperley, the chief budget officer of the Library of Congress, who came under suspicion for possible financial improprieties; and Ernie Blanchard, the Coast Guard's top press spokesman, who faced a possible court-martial because of sexually offensive jokes he told in a speech. Each victim, of course, had his own psychological makeup and motives. But collectively, they point up the increasing pressure carried by people in the public spotlight, or even in the nearby shadows...
...case, would a man who had ascended to such high rank require these small, phony proclamations of martial virtue to be pinned above his chest hair? Because he started out so low in rank? Why wear tokens asserting that years ago he was somewhere--in combat in Vietnam--where it could so easily be proved that...
...dust-bowl Kansas wasn't exactly a place for airy chat; you grew up in the last age of yup and nope. "Lost the farm." "Bad." "Still tryin'." "Good.") Now it's all different. When you run for President, words are your friend, your only friend. You must "martial them to fight for you,'' in Margaret Thatcher's phrase. This will be a psychic shift, and it won't happen overnight. But it's your job now; if you win the presidency, it will be your job then...
Blanchard also feared the loss of a pension that a court-martial might mean. He offered to resign if the Coast Guard would halt its probe, but on March 10, he was turned down. Three days later, Blanchard met with Vice Admiral Arthur Henn, the Coast Guard's No. 2 officer, to ask for time off. "His face was drawn and a little pale," Henn said. "He was mortified that he had caused such potential embarrassment to the Coast Guard and his family...