Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread, No Beds. In the slowly reviving capital, life collapsed completely. Martial law and the general strike ordered by EAM paralyzed all public services. Shops closed, trams stopped, streets emptied. Conditions at Athens' Hospital of the Evangelist had been bad enough before the fighting began. Now so many civilians had been wounded that there was not enough of anything, except drugs, to care for them. Patients lay on mattresses on the floor. Even the doctors' offices, reception rooms and corridors were full of wounded...
Last week, three days after the shooting, Private George E. Smith Jr., of Pittsburgh, was arrested on a charge of murdering Sir Eric Teichman, Private Leonard S. Wijpacha of Detroit on a charge of being an accessory. A U.S. Army court-martial prepared to hear evidence in an ancient English crime: murder by poachers...
Scores of demonstrators flattened against the pavement, some with wounds, some for safety. The fighting continued for hours. At least 20 demonstrators were killed, 150 persons, including a few police, injured. By nightfall Monday British troops had declared martial law, imposed a curfew, disarmed 800 guerrillas...
Telling no full-sized story, The Streets Are Guarded mixes vaporish mysticism with barrack-room horseplay and talk that lacks the old punch. Over it all lies the war-at-a-distance wistfulness of a man who once lived war at first hand. Meant for a martial chant, it is more like a nostalgic ballad, too often sung rustily...
...found. The Senate war investigating committee decided to make a survey. Secretary of War Stimson called it a problem of supply, promised that the situation would be corrected "as soon as possible." General Eisenhower ordered MPs to crack down harder than ever on the black market, ordered the court-martial of all G.I.s engaged in shady deals...