Word: martially
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These hit-&-run raids did not satisfy the West Coast. The Coast was not scared, not angry, but anxious. Westerners have a tradition of meeting violence with quicker vengeance. From the West Coast a cry went up: "Give us martial...
...executive order restored to Army courts the power (revoked in peacetime) to impose death sentences in court-martial proceedings...
...Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would be granted. Both services felt that the scapegoats had been pelted enough...
...early life was like a series of military marches. He went to Ireland, where he remembers (age four) his grandfather, the Lord-Lieutenant, saying as he unveiled a Dublin statue: ". . . with a withering volley he shattered the enemy's line." "Nor," says Author Guedalla, "was the martial infant . . . unaware of the nature of a volley...
Below Nuuana, the city under martial law was almost as calm as in peacetime. Except for the concrete barriers being hastily erected in the streets, Honolulu looked pretty much as it did before. The Army set up a rent commission, and merchants were watched to prevent food profiteering...