Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Fateh, commanding the battalion, clamped down martial law, seized Najafi and his chief aide, and ordered them shot. But as dawn broke, Fateh's superior officer, mindful of Tudeh influence at Teheran, stayed the executions. After three tense days of negotiations, a temporary compromise was patched up and the plant reopened...
Among the first to acknowledge the gay courage shown by the Bavarian society ladies (who have been through so much these last years) are the gallant young U.S. lieutenants, captains and majors. Their uniforms add to Tegernsee parties that touch of martial color for which Bavarian society has ever been distinguished...
William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, late great prophet of air power, whose refusal to be silenced led to his court-martial in 1925 for "insubordination," got a token payment on the debt owed him by the U.S. The House finally got around to passing a bill-which the Senate had already sent down twice-authorizing the award of a special Congressional Medal of Honor...
...suspended the fights for the war's duration because the fighting cows when in training are fed white wine and bread and are not expected to produce much milk. Last week, thanks to peace, hundreds of cowbells in the passes leading to the high pastures tinkled a martial melody: tough Valaisan farmers and big Valaisan cows were heading for another rendezvous with destiny...
Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...