Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Badoglio Government had proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House...
...will soon have martial strains to accompany them during their regular Saturday drilling at Soldiers Field. A 50 piece band composed of V-12 mates will insure proper cadence for the 930 aspirant officers-to-be. Under the leadership of Lt. (j.g) Earle W. Barnes USNR, the band will throw superstition to the winds by having its first practice Friday the 13th...
Swiftly the new Premier decreed martial law, with a ban against all public gatherings and a dawn-to-dusk curfew, over restive, smoldering Italy. He formed a new cabinet sprinkled with military and professional names. In every action Pietro Badoglio and the aristocratic, clerical faction he represented showed the core of their ambition: They wanted a conservative, disciplined, monarchial Italy. They were not averse to keeping the gains of their league with fascismo. They still spoke of the "King Emperor," a title bestowed on the head of the House of Savoy after the conquest of Ethiopia...
...Corps has wider age limits (20 to 50) and no restrictions on its size. WACs will get the same pensions as male soldiers, though no allowances for dependents. They will be under military discipline, including court-martial. They can also write "free" on their letters. WAC officers will rate with male opposite members; a first lieutenant will be called just that, not "second officer." The Corps will be a pedigreed part of the Army, shuck off the stepsister status of auxiliaries...
...Marines expanded to war strength, Lou Diamond was the ideal liaison between crusty old-timers and impressionable recruits. He taught quick action by threats of .yardbird detail and the rough side of a corrugated tongue. His men swore by Lou, remembered the time he dared a colonel to court-martial him for filching extra food for his men. "I'll beat da rap," said he, "I did it for da boys...