Word: martialled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...declared May 29 "will be the last non-violent demonstrations in the near future". The Rev. Reeves did not speculate on the nature of these demonstrations but commented that "it would be the final irony if South Africa had to celebrate their new Republic in a state of martial...
Lamb then notes the well-known fact that Arthur Wellesley's real remark was far less martial, and last week Eton's Headmaster, Robert Birley, produced his own version. After Waterloo, according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...
...last week Red Cross stretcher-bearers picked up their load and headed across the railroad bridge linking Red China with Hong Kong. Loudspeakers on the Chinese side opened up with martial airs. But on the stretcher, Robert Ezra McCann appeared to hear neither the music nor his wife's whisper, "Now we are out." He stared blankly into the China skies. After ten years in Red China's jails, McCann was free...
...They were written between 1350 and 1450 as a means of educating the illiterate medieval masses in the fundamentals of the Chris tian faith. The present production consists of 18 of the plays-skillfully edited into a 3½hour evening in comprehensible English by onetime Cambridge Scholar Martial Rose. Performed by the Mermaid Players, the result is a smash hit with modern Londoners-it is heavily booked for a nine-week...
...Regs," soon whips together a unit that makes up in morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...