Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel James A. Kilian, former commandant of Lichfield's ill-famed loth Reinforcement Depot, squared his shoulders last week at the court-martial of one of his prison guards, glared at the assistant prosecutor, and rasped...
...honor of the Red Army, coats and suits struck a martial note with padded shoulders and belted backs, but (and this was new) dressy hats helped soften the severity of line. Skirts were slim, with kickpleats back and front...
Meanwhile, Gomulka & Co. have issued a handy decree setting up courts-martial (no appeal, sentences executed in 24 hours, penalties from one year in prison to death) for all crimes against public security, public order or the economic interests of the state...
From behind the thick-lensed glasses that give him a Martian rather than a martial appearance, Military Expert Fletcher Pratt last week shot a pained backward look at the war he had helped to report. Critic H. L. Mencken, who only knew what he read in the papers, had called its war correspondents "a sorry lot" (TIME, Jan. 14). Expert Pratt, a correspondent himself, is convinced that World War II "was very nearly the worst reported war in history." But he turned the blame elsewhere...
...Secure the Peace." Tardily, after the unsoldierly hubbub of homesick G.I.s had reached a stage of near-mutiny (TIME, Jan. 21), Chief of Staff Eisenhower had forbidden any more soldiers' demonstrations on pain of court-martial. Now he told why he had put the brakes on demobilization and thus touched off the rumpus...