Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some Coast Guardsmen became drunk and rowdy. The base commander put a guard around his station, leveled destroyer searchlights upon it. Each guardsman "going ashore" was thoroughly searched at the gate to prevent liquor smuggling out of the base. The gate kiosk was stacked with miscellaneous bottles. General courts martial were ordered with 24 guardsmen involved in charges of intoxication, or pilfering liquor...
...censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom he stood accused of High Treason (TIME, Dec. 9). The 70-year-old rebel is living quietly in Madrid today with his daughters, and when he goes walking is sometimes cheered by irrepressible students of the University of Madrid who shout, "Long live Sanchez Guerra! Death...
...Court martial!" roared fiery Gömbos, "with the probability of degradation...