Word: martially
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...Over the German home radio a soldiers' chorus was cheerfully bellowing out Wir Fahren Gegen Engelland. Suddenly came a flourish of martial music, and a hoarse voice cried: "Achtung! Achtung! Enemy planes are over northwest Germany!" Then the station went...
...many generals (but no admirals) have been quietly broken. Lower echelons are harder to get at among the millions of men now in the services. But Critic Baldwin's statements did add up to a sound criticism of the Army personnel machine, and of a U.S. deficiency in martial spirit...
...Great, from Suvorov, who carried Russia's flag across the Alps, from Kutuzov, who beat Napoleon, the thread of traditional reverence for the cannon ran directly to Voronov. He was a product of Red training, but he took pride in being heir to Russia's rich martial tradition, and he tried to inspire his aides with this pride. He would sit for long hours bulked behind his desk -all 6 ft. 5 and 225 Ib. of him -quietly talking to his officers...
President Manuel Avila Camacho, in front of a group of his country's flyers, thought the time had come to speak in martial tones. Said he: "To the air forces falls the responsibility for carrying our national colors to the war fronts.. . . You have already shown you want to fight.* . . . I shall consider and determine the possibility that Mexico, in a valiant and virile manner, shall participate in the war-although actually it will only be a symbolic act to raise our flag on the battlefields...
Army, was held for a court-martial. The crime with which he is charged: treason, for which the top punishment is death...