Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dismissal from the service, one of the stiffest penalties the Army can give an officer, is usually reserved for offenses involving moral turpitude. But a court-martial made an exception in the case of 24-year-old Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C. and cluster, Air Medal and three clusters...
Before entering its sentence the court-martial considered the accused's record: he had piloted a Fortress in 25 missions over Europe, had once brought back his plane on one engine, was a first-class fighting man. They also considered his explanation: he was busy instructing a student, did not notice the airliner...
...Works. The airmen on the court-martial, recalling other instances of dangerous skylarking around commercial aircraft,* apparently thought little of his defense, gave him the works...
...Civil Aeronautics Board blamed an Army bomber pilot for crashing into an American Airlines plane near Palm Springs, Calif. in October 1942, killing twelve. A court-martial acquitted the pilot...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...