Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Discipline has a broader significance than mere punishment. ... It is secured through mental, moral and physical training combined with an intelligent understanding of the reasons for standards and conduct and the objectives in view. . . . Poor discipline is generally the result of inferior leadership and is evidenced by excessive courts-martial; a high percentage of desertion and absence without leave; slovenly dress, inattention to saluting . . . general inefficiency. . . . The successful leader must, first, have a thorough understanding on his own part of [these principles]. . . . Further, he must constantly keep in mind the twin objectives of the selective service...
Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...
Since the late great Brigadier General "Billy" Mitchell demanded a separate air force and got a court-martial instead, flying officers who agree with him have kept their opinion to themselves. The Air Corps, controlled by groundling officers of the General Staff, rocked along as a branch of the Army, and in 1940's emergency it found itself in the Army's fix: a long way from M-Day trim. But many a flying man could see, close ahead, the day when Billy Mitchell's demand for separate existence would be outmoded. For the inevitable result...
...Negro band jigged past, stepping high & handsome, swinging out martial music. The crowd relaxed. On came floats, decked with damsels; band after band after band; stunts, leaping cars, clowns, flags, hundreds of booted, satin-clad drum majorettes, strutting, cartwheeling, trucking to the swing of ever more bands-400 of them. There were Indians, Zouaves, a four-year-old and a 60-year-old drum majorette; a blind veteran with a Seeing Eye dog; Rudy Vallee, "Bojangles" Robinson, a sign reading "America-Love It or Leave It"; a Brooklyn contingent bawling "To hell with the guys who brought their wives...
...historical importance of the events he was observing, an almost religious reverence (Regler is an ex-Catholic) for the simple, anonymous, resolute volunteers who had come to fight for freedom in a strange land. From these feelings comes the book's emotional charge, its human understanding, its martial sweep. Its weaknesses are Regler's weaknesses - sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter...