Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They add that enlistment would speed up if the army revised its court-martial procedure and modified the officer-caste system...
...Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...
...Athens, Easter Sunday's Feast of the Resurrection was far from festive. Martial law had been proclaimed, and while church bells pealed Athenians bandied the latest rumor: next on the party list was Vice Premier Constantin Tsaldaris...
Decision. As the gunfire died away and Bogotá lay desolate, looted, gutted and under martial law, heads of conference delegations met to decide whether to stay in Bogotá or to go home. In Santiago, the Chilean government declared that the conference must go on. Not all Latin-American countries were so sure. Finally the delegates made their decision: "To continue the important work with which the governments have charged them until they have fully completed the task . . . for which they were convened." But that did not necessarily mean that the conference would stay in ruined Bogotá. There...
...Banquo's ghost. As Critic A. C. Bradley once pointed out, the fourth act of most very great Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear) tends to slump. Last week's production slumps less than the play, and proceeds to a mighty laying-on of Macduff and a martial conclusion. Perhaps best of all, the new production catches an atmosphere of menace and an air of Scotland...