Word: martially
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...duty, soldiers will be allowed to wear civilian clothing and will be required to salute only immediate superiors. (Formerly, an enlisted man entering a civilian restaurant had to salute every officer present and ask the highest-ranking for permission to eat there.) Civilian judges will participate in courts-martial and soldier-defendants will be free to choose their own lawyers and appeal their cases...
...correspondents were covering the war. He shipped his notes home to his wife, who passed them on to a publisher. This week, for his extracurricular writing, Voorhees 1) had a brand-new book, Korean Tales (Simon & Schuster; $3), and 2) faced a charge that may bring court-martial. The charge: 1) breaking the rule that all writing by soldiers on active duty must be cleared by the Army, 2) disobeying a superior who had specifically ordered him to clear the book...
...that the book was bound to create ill feeling between the press and Army and make it harder for officers to work with correspondents in the future. This week, his book ready to go into the stalls, Writer Voorhees prepared to face charges that may lead to a court-martial...
Amolsch arrived in Cambridge as Air Force sergeant in January of 1949. He liked the post immediately. He was even happier to discover that Harvard men "are good material to work with." He readily defends their martial qualities, the lack of which is a popular butt, by testifying that "Harvard turns out Licutenants just as good as those of any other school...
Iran was under martial law for the second time in a month. Right-wing Nationalists and Communists, brawling in Teheran, set fire to offices, bombarded members of the U.S. military mission with rocks and cabbages. Mossadegh's problem was how to make sure that the Iranian army, which is four weeks behind in its pay, will stay loyal to the government. Desperately, he set up teams of free-lance tax gatherers with orders to soak Iran's wealthy landlords and traders for some of the taxes they have never bothered to pay. The tax collectors will...