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Word: martially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reportedly $2,500. He published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short, Unhappy Life | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...This martial interruption was the idea of Australia's Lieut. General H.C.H. Robertson, British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan. Like many a Commonwealth occupation official, Robertson feels that U.S. policy in Japan has too much poetry, not enough punch. As commander of the Hiroshima area at the ceremony, Robertson had a rare chance to show the Japanese (and the Americans) what he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Hotfoot in Hiroshima | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...time the doors of Philadelphia's enormous, echoing Convention Hall were thrown open, the army of sweating and rumpled Republicans gradually attained a state of martial hypnosis, like Indians engaged in nights of war dancing. They thirsted for the raw firewater of campaign oratory. And on opening night, as the jammed hall blinked to the glare of flashlights, they got it by the bucketful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Big Show | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Super Detective | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...German machine-gun nest with a detachment of French Goums in Tunisia's Sedjenane Valley. The Silver Star was awarded to him posthumously. He had also been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross but that was denied. At the time of his death he was awaiting court-martial for insubordination. They buried him near the spot where he fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Happy Busboy | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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