Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Semitism is not the only object of the demonstrations, and that the disorders are definitely taking on a new complexion in the shape of pro-royalism. Leaders of the opposition have warned the Government that the students are preparing for rebellion. Count Bethlen has retorted by threatening to enforce martial law if necessary. The anniversary of the 1848 revolution, which started the present trouble, commemorates the year in which Louis Kossuth established Hungary as an independent state connected with Austria only through the Emperor. A long period of negotiations they started between the Emperor and the Hungarian Diet, which culminated...
When Senator Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, died last August, he left behind him a legacy of charges against the United States Army in France. Disgruntled ex-soldiers and others had induced him to believe that members of the American Expeditionary Forces had been executed without trial or court-martial...
...soon as the United States took over the government of the island, marines were sent in and Santo Domingo was put under a form of martial law. The first difficulty met with was in disarming the natives, who had been accustomed all their lives to carrying weapons. This was only accomplished by the intimidation of the 'bosses', the native leaders in the different sections of the country...
...nationalism, and militarism have been treated to a big dose of Russian nationalism and militarism in the shape of several colossal military reviews of the crack Red Army, newly equipped from head to foot, and attended by all the cheering the display of national pride that only a splendid martial review can call forth. To this the delegates merely observed that their parties at home would be inspired by the example of the Red Army to give battle unflinchingly, a countenancing of militarism which is certainly not in accord with their published beliefs. The difference, in their minds, between Russian...
...which is perfectly "safe" to issue in wartime, at least to commissioned officers? Shall we agree that these are greater works of art simply because they tell what we would like to believe if we could? Must we remain forever, as a matter of patriotism, in that state of martial stupefaction, which believes that all American soldiers were stainless Sir Galahads? Indeed, what sort of patriotism is it that insists that the public shall go on thinking that millions of Americans liked crawling before "superiors", being humiliated, hounded, and beaten up by the scum of the M. P. force...