Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
...history, was compelled to extend democracy with caution. The other (the Chinese Communists) was anti-democratic in philosophy and action. If any American could have achieved Chinese peace and unity, it was certainly General George Marshall. But the degree of U.S. failure was reflected in last week's martial news from China...
...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
...Martial Memos...
Brazilians yell themselves hoarse over the spectacular quartet from Rigoletto, but they listened coolly while Sayao and French Baritone Martial Singher sang the climaxless Pelléas et Mélisande. Luckily for Bidu, she could do no wrong...