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Word: martially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monarchs sat down to a banquet in the sumptuous Hejaz style. The great table groaned under the weight of sweetmeats and whole barbecued sheep. In high good humor, Ibn Saud told brave tales of his youth. For hours the feasting continued, while the Wahabis made the night ring with martial songs and poems flattering the royal Egyptian guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Protocol in the Desert | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Martial Pressure. Ambassador Hurley donned a pince-nez to read an address in English. Third Secretary Fulton Freeman reread it in faultless Mandarin. The Generalissimo read a response in Chinese. An interpreter rendered it into faultless English. Then Pat Hurley presented his credentials. One formal hand shake was called for; the Ambassador added another for friendship's sake. As the Generalissimo lowered his hand, observers saw that Hurley's martial pressure had left it white and bloodless. But Chiang's face beamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Protocol in Chungking | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Good soldiers winced, like the folks at home, when they heard that U.S. service troops in France had been systematically stealing and selling cigarets, gasoline, food and arms needed by their fighting comrades at the front. Last week the Army (and court martial witnesses) told more about one of the sorriest scandals in recent military history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Millionaire Battalion | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...court martial was unimpressed. Every one of the first 16 soldiers to face it was sentenced to prison and hard labor. The lightest sentence: 25 years. The heaviest : life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Millionaire Battalion | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Some courts-martial have been completed, and others are in process. But no U.S. smuggler will get the punishment already dealt out to several Chinese accomplices. They were executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Smuggling over the Hump | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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