Word: martially
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...brush in Vag's hand whipped over his glistening shoes in offbeat rhythm to the tune he was whistling. It was "Over There," with many martial trills and cadenzas. ". . .And we won't come back tum de tum tum over there," he finished with a satisfied flick of a shoe cloth...
Forty-Eight Acres. At 10 the third morning, Abdel Hady, standing motionless before the court-martial, heard his fate: death by hanging; confiscation of his $900,000 fortune, except for the 48 acres of land he inherited from his father. Two days later, with a great show of magnanimity, President Naguib's twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council commuted Hady's sentence to life in prison...
...mere hell-raising. All but one of the principal characters are fairly scarifying as future warriors or even as future citizens. There is a blabbing prig, a conniving misfit, an ingratiatingly evil Jocko De Paris (Ben Gaz-zara), a master of midnight ceremonies violent enough to mean court-martial and expulsion...
...year-old ex-dictator's dramatics, the prosecutor came day after day to Mossadegh's room in the army barracks and piled up statements and evidence. At week's end, the government announced that Mossadegh eventually will be tried by a military court-martial for his "illegal acts" against the Shah and the country between Aug. 15, when the Shah fired him as Premier, and Aug. 19, when the mobs chased him from power and recalled the Shah from his brief exile in Rome...
...Shah's court and the government could not agree on whether to hold the court-martial in public and run the chance that Mossadegh might steal the stage, nor had they settled on the punishment to be exacted. Theoretically, he could be condemned to death as a traitor. But in the streets, Mossadegh still commanded great popularity, and the Communist-led Tudeh (in spite of vigorous government efforts to defang it by throwing its leaders into jail) was busy last week cooking up sentiment for a pro-Mossadegh uprising. Those who feared that Mossadegh's wizardry might live...