Word: martially
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...time the doors of Philadelphia's enormous, echoing Convention Hall were thrown open, the army of sweating and rumpled Republicans gradually attained a state of martial hypnosis, like Indians engaged in nights of war dancing. They thirsted for the raw firewater of campaign oratory. And on opening night, as the jammed hall blinked to the glare of flashlights, they got it by the bucketful...
...home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
...German machine-gun nest with a detachment of French Goums in Tunisia's Sedjenane Valley. The Silver Star was awarded to him posthumously. He had also been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross but that was denied. At the time of his death he was awaiting court-martial for insubordination. They buried him near the spot where he fell...
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...