Word: martially
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...This composition is frankly descriptive. I have wanted to capture something of what lies behind the inscrutable Indian visage; capture the whole rainbow, the arc of their savage grief, their martial fire, their craving for sun and space...
...long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul...
...court-martial to try all more or less authentic Reds on whom the White victors could get their hands, much as the defenders of Málaga set up after the civil war began a "people's court" to crack down on any Spaniard who seemed to be more or less Monarchist or even middleclass. That an orgy of Spanish vengeance did not at once erupt in Málaga last week, as it has erupted after almost every previous White victory in Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking...
...Spain's south coast, broadcast that they had been welcomed with "enthusiasm" while Red militia fled headlong from the city, as well they might. Few hours after No. 2 White General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, "The Radio General," entered Malaga he broadcast that he was setting up courts-martial, that "Marxists will be instantly executed!" By nightfall nearly 5,000 persons had been rounded up. Released from Red prison ships in the harbor by General de Llano were 200 men and women, many of them Spain's aristocrats...
...proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...