Word: martially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About a month after Meyer Tobiansky's disappearance, the Jewish government issued a curt announcement: Tobiansky had been convicted of treason by a Haganah court-martial and shot...
...Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...page, Henry A. Burgevine, had more martial spirit than was good for him. In China in the days of the great Taiping rebellion, Adventurer Burgevine entered the Emperor's service. In 1860 he became commander of the foreign mercenaries, but he was ousted and fled to the rebels, who gave him a high command. Captured later by government forces, he was drowned before he could be brought to trial. Some said his boat capsized; some said he was plumped into a burlap bag and dumped into...
...government relies on the police, most of whose key officials are hated because they originally worked for Japan. The country is under modified martial law, and there are frequent arbitrary arrests. Since the government took over from U.S. military authorities last August, it has closed 16 newspapers and magazines. The latest was the Seoul Shin Mun, the country's largest newspaper. A government spokesman explained that Shin Mun had "reprinted only 40% of official releases in the past four months and is therefore clearly anti-government...
...exultant Communist radio described the scene of the crossing: "The river rang with silvery notes of bugles and martial music . . . Boats by the thousands shuttled between the northern and southern banks . . . As 1,000 guns belched fire and smoke, the Yangtze waters were lit up in a lurid glare...