Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, we have Sergeant Smith, an ordinary soldier with an eighth-grade education. The Army court-martial found him guilty of giving several unjust punishments which he had been ordered to give and of giving one beating in which he took the initiative. . . . His punishment was three years in prison...
...school readers contain pictures of rifles, tanks, and airplanes. All young Yugoslavs are compulsory members of Tito's National Youth Organization, where they get technical and military training. Ascetic discipline is rigidly preached and enforced (sexual promiscuity is almost as serious an offense as a weakness for capitalism). Martial virtues are also inculcated. For months after the German surrender, female partisans were allowed to carry hand grenades at their sides (until one exploded during a jitterbug session...
Unperturbed, Colonel Kilian went right on fighting back, started a formal attempt to court-martial former Prosecutor Carroll for "maliciously instigating" his trial...
...Court-Martial the Prosecutor? The trials were a travesty on justice. Witnesses refused to testify; there were postponements, delays, finally transfer of the trials from London to Germany. At one point a court-martial president quit in disgust. So did Prosecutor Captain Earl J. Carroll...
...natures. Last week swirling inflation, caused by war's dislocations and Government ineptitude, spawned violence. Riot ruled Rio de Janeiro as angry mobs wrecked shops of profiteering merchants, smashed fancy movie theaters and battled police. Congress roared; at least one newspaper shouted for a strong man. This week martial law was declared and soldiers, guns in hand, patrolled the streets...