Word: martially
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These sounds across the nation were only an industrial murmur. The most reverberating martial noises came from the West Coast. For several days last week, vehicles rolled along Route 101 from the Marines' Camp Pendleton to the Navy's station at San Diego. Forty-five-ton Pershing tanks lumbered across the beach and into LCTs. Buses disgorged men in green camouflaged uniforms who boarded attack transports...
...kids, drenched, tired, their ears buzzing with martial music, hate-laden lies and head colds, began the long trek home. The holiday was over, and it was still raining...
...away as Calgary and Montreal. The Red Cross provided emergency funds for the needy. Thousands of other evacuees crowded into downtown Winnipeg, safe on relatively high ground. The city auditorium was turned into a dormitory. If the situation worsened drastically, Morton had a master plan for compulsory evacuation, under martial law, of as much as 75% of the city's 320,000 population. Food was stockpiled; emergency passes and ration cards were printed...
...week's end the military junta which rules Venezuela declared martial law in the oilfields, then moved to dissolve the striking unions on the ground that they had "altered their specific objectives and converted themselves into an instrument of political action." Later, the government came right out and charged Communists and the outlawed Acción Democrática party with fomenting the strike...
...last week the Communists apparently felt ready for a preliminary trial of strength with the government. Because it was largely a test, the unionists refrained from violence and sabotage, and the government's use of martial law seemed enough to contain the situation. But U.S. and British experience had shown that as a practical matter soldiers cannot dig coal, and it was hardly likely that the government could keep 500 million barrels of oil a year flowing out of Venezuela without coming to some sort of understanding with labor. Unless the government could find labor leadership good enough...