Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their superior arms (automatic rifles against old 6.5-mm. Kraag-Jörgensens, for which the Norse can get more ammunition only from Sweden or the U. S. ), they should be able soon to take southern Norway. Unless King Haakon would order nonresistance, the Nazis promised "martial law," the Gestapo, the death penalty, confiscation, destruction, starvation, the whole bag of tricks displayed in Poland...
...long and at night patrols sought prisoners for information. French military sources reported heavy German concentrations near Frankfurt, practically said an offensive was coming. Where would it strike first? The Netherlands was most nervous. As civilians fled from frontier districts, fresh troops moved in. All Army leaves were canceled. Martial law was extended. With roads and bridges mined, trees girded with dynamite, the Dutch hoped they could give a good account of themselves in the field before they had to open the dikes...
...thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce may have reposed in his partnership...
...imaginary "Red" (French) invasion. Suddenly, mysteriously, the maneuver ended. As suddenly, Hitler invaded Poland, the Allies declared war. Il Duce disappeared from public view. It was rumored that he had had a heart attack. Whether or not he was sick, his heart was certainly sore. After 17 years of martial preparation for the second World War, he had been forced by his generals to realize that whether or not Italy wanted to fight, Italy could not fight...
...hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs in London's West End, where service men on leave, their tongues loosened on "bottle parties," are prone to speak too freely. As an example to tighten British tongues and defeat the spy system from that end, a court-martial in London last week deprived an unnamed naval officer of his commission for "careless talk...