Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets of Boston to the historic square--"if we live that long"--the band will treat the onlookers to old favorites by Sousa, Lithgow, Hall, and others, as well as some lesser-known marches. Prokoffief and Milhand will be conspicuous by their absence when the brass biares forth such martial strains as R. B. Hall's "S.I.B.A. March," which the band fondly dedicates to the Staten Island Boilermakers' Association...
Lieut. John Wardle, commanding one of His Majesty's small (100-odd feet) motor minesweepers, was no Captain Bligh. Last week a Royal Court Martial sentenced Wardle to dismissal from his command and forfeiture of three months' seniority...
...terrorists, collared many in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem who were merely terrorized. The Jews managed sly smiles at a British announcement that 25 "known members of the extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang had been taken during "Operation Hippo" (the Army's designation for its application of martial law). Said Tel Avivians: "Hippo labored and brought forth a mouse...
JERUSALEM, March 2-More than 250,000 Palestine Jews were put under the iron grip of martial law tonight as the British Army arrested 60 persons in the first, screening of suspects in yesterday's bloody series of bomb and gun attacks which claimed 21 lives...
...frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were in no way different from 121 Leftists executed before them, or the 46 scheduled to be executed after them...