Word: martially
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Saturday night, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his second and what was to have been his last Treasury program-but it was announced that Maestro Toscanini would be back. Something to listen to was Toscanini's martial rendering of The Star-Spangled Banner: thunderous, romantic and exalted...
...continent are the three possible ways in which it might succeed. The failure of Germany with a 4-1 air superiority to break England, one-tenth the area of Europe, seems to rule out the bombing theory. Revolt within Germany is highly-tenuous, especially in actual war, with martial law enforcing the German will and starvation driving the conquered to work. New acquisitions of industrial and food areas make the economic blockade no longer very creditable...
...tilled the soil and engaged in other sorts of civilian life. The samurai were as proud as if they were the guardians of their nation. They believed "might is right" and the sword is justice. So great was their influence that the country came under the domination of their martial spirit, and it became a land of samurai...
Shortly he was blindfolded again, taken to the banks of the Liffey and threatened with drowning. In July an I.R.A. court-martial questioned him all one afternoon and night, sentenced him to death. For ten days his legs were chained and padlocked. Early this month three of his captors shoved him into a car, started through the city. Stephen Hayes managed to seize one of their guns with his manacled hands and pitch himself into the street...
Concerning this story Defendant McCaughey had nothing to say. The court-martial ruled that, although Plaintiff Hayes had an I.R.A. past, he was entitled to live in peace and safety. Defendant McCaughey was sentenced to be shot by a firing squad...