Word: martially
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...moved his wife and two daughters to their first real home after years of nomadic army life: an old castle just off the Köslin market place. He added municipal cares to his army work, became a military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials pouring in, he had the town councilors substitute busses for their antiquated tram-cars, including late busses for moviegoers. He entertained well and often, guzzling beer in soldier-size quantities. He liked chess and horseback riding as well as motorcycling and engineering. He intervened...
...crisis was not so acute as it had been two weeks earlier, there was no sign that it might not become acute again at any moment. More & more The Netherlands took on the aspect of an armed camp. With the entire country under martial law, the Army's commander in chief, Lieut. General Henri Gerard Winckelman, clamped down on the hitherto free press, ordered the licensing of publishers and sellers of all printed matter. A license, the General explained, could be considered automatically granted except for publications that "might interfere with the country's safety, political interests...
...Casey was right and Herr Hitler's very apparent preparations were not a dodge to deceive his enemies, the Low Countries had good reason to be nervous. Nervous they were. Belgium called back all men who had been released from the reserves because of age. The Netherlands extended martial law to the entire country, for the first time since 184,8. Luxembourg, which has an Army of 475 (gendarmerie included), cannot defend herself and will not try to, but the Luxembourgeois, who stood four years of occupation in World War I, know that far worse things are in store...
...their superior arms (automatic rifles against old 6.5-mm. Kraag-Jörgensens, for which the Norse can get more ammunition only from Sweden or the U. S. ), they should be able soon to take southern Norway. Unless King Haakon would order nonresistance, the Nazis promised "martial law," the Gestapo, the death penalty, confiscation, destruction, starvation, the whole bag of tricks displayed in Poland...
...long and at night patrols sought prisoners for information. French military sources reported heavy German concentrations near Frankfurt, practically said an offensive was coming. Where would it strike first? The Netherlands was most nervous. As civilians fled from frontier districts, fresh troops moved in. All Army leaves were canceled. Martial law was extended. With roads and bridges mined, trees girded with dynamite, the Dutch hoped they could give a good account of themselves in the field before they had to open the dikes...