Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Common Defense. What Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King had done at their Easter conference in 1941 was to solemnize the economic marriage of the U.S. and Canada. Mackenzie King had used martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...
Dark Descent. Miss West's book is a descent into the circles of a drab inferno. It was reached through several pit heads-the bomb-battered building of London's Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords, a court martial near the blitzed waterfront at Portsmouth. Above all, it was reached through the collapsing corridors of many ruined minds...
...Party big shots heard a radio news flash and, just in time, skedaddled. Parliamentary immunity spared the party's five Senators and 15 Deputies. But at El Siglo, the Communist newspaper in Santiago, even the linotypers were arrested. At Lota, 300 miners' leaders were held for court-martial. When Communist unions pulled reprisal strikes in the great nitrate fields and copper mines, the Army grabbed another...
...will states that the study may include either peaceful or martial aspects of the naval history and points in particular to how the maritime area has "affected and may affect the security and progress of the U.S.A...
...Solution. Peron, who has no intention of falling anywhere, might plump for a tried-&-true Argentine solution: declaration of a state of siege or nationwide martial law. That way he could silence the opposition, give the Army, which has not fought a war in 75 years, a sense of directing public affairs...