Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arraigned before the court-martial, José Melgar grinned cheerfully, though he answered the officers' questions with respect. Since punctured President Sanchez Cerro was alive last week and not expected to die, Puncturer Melgar knew he had comparatively little to fear. To win popularity and votes almost any punctured public man will try to get his assailant off. Last week in Lima the court-martial sat from 8 a. m. until 4 a. m.-then sentenced to death both Puncturer Melgar and his accomplice, Juan Seoane, 32, whose brother Manuel is the Leader of Peru's Aprista (Opposition...
...mock court-martial will be enacted by members of Military Science 4 at 7 o'clock on Monday evening in the Senior Common Room of Eliot House. The proceedings are to be open to residents of the house in so far as the capacity of the room permits...
About 18 men will take part in the court-martial, which has not been put on for two years. The case in point concerns an enlisted man accused of larceny, and the whole affair is intended to familiarize Military Science students with such proceedings. Colonel W. S. Sturgill will officiate, although the actual trial is entirely in the hands of the students...
Since then for more than fifty years the composed militarily erect figure of John Phillips Sousa has dominated the world of military music. Although undoubtedly a great director and a versatile technician, he must acknowledge superiors in these fields. But as the inspired composer of stirring martial melodies he stands alone. In the blare of trumpets, the blast of horns, the shrill of clarinets, the reverberating beat of drums lies an overpowering factor in the patriotism of a nation. Of these elements Sousa was possibly the greatest master that the world has ever known. With consummate skill he combined them...
...General himself scuttled out of town, pursued by Japanese bombing planes. Harbin's Japanese and White Russian inhabitants cheered lustily from the housetops. Within a few hours the occupation was complete. Japanese soldiers rushed about with great buckets of paste, posting notices that the city was under martial law, that its inhabitants were not to be molested...