Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly he was blindfolded again, taken to the banks of the Liffey and threatened with drowning. In July an I.R.A. court-martial questioned him all one afternoon and night, sentenced him to death. For ten days his legs were chained and padlocked. Early this month three of his captors shoved him into a car, started through the city. Stephen Hayes managed to seize one of their guns with his manacled hands and pitch himself into the street...
Concerning this story Defendant McCaughey had nothing to say. The court-martial ruled that, although Plaintiff Hayes had an I.R.A. past, he was entitled to live in peace and safety. Defendant McCaughey was sentenced to be shot by a firing squad...
Because of the strike Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven decreed a state of emergency and clamped Oslo under martial law. Oslo's German police chief, Wilhelm Rediess, implemented the declaration by authorizing death penalties, confiscation of property. Oslo was placed under a 7 o'clock curfew, transportation was stopped after that hour, public meetings were prohibited, wireless sets seized, dancing forbidden. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Salvation Army organizations dissolved...
...preventive kits and ten-cent sheaths at camp stores. All men are supposed to report to camp stations for treatment after exposure. But many do not take the trouble. Nor do they worry about the rule which provides for docking pay of infected men, or the possibility of court martial, at the discretion of the commanding officer, for unreported infection. The U.S. Public Health Service makes no bones about the fact that some Army officers, especially in the South, find it almost impossible to enforce sanitary rules. In some camps, soldiers are shown educational movies...
After a sanity test (verdict: sane) Private Habinyak was court-martialed, pleaded guilty to a list of charges of insubordination. Then the court-martial showed it had little more sense of proportion than Private Habinyak. Its sentence: ten years and nine months in prison. Luckily for stubborn John Habinyak (and for the Army), the sentence had to be reviewed by the Secretary of War and the President. This week the War Department announced the sentence had been cut to a more reasonable three years...