Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clasped behind his back; spectators close to him saw that he was digging his fingernails deep into the flesh. The verdict: death on the gallows for Rajk and two fellow defendants, life imprisonment for two more, nine years for another. Soldier Palffy will be sentenced separately by "a court-martial...
...former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
After his martial admission to "The community of the just upon earth," i.e., a tiny fictional subsect of the Scottish Reformed Church, young Robert Wring-him put on the full armor of God, and then some. The story of his un-Christian soldiering is told in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner...
...weeks before the scheduled game, martial law is declared on both campuses. Raiding parties can be expected any night. A concrete "C" in the Berkeley Hills usually gets a coat of cardinal red paint (Stanford's color), and numerous blue C's appear on the Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property...
...Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...