Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serviceman Bob Toth, flown back to Korea to face an Air Force court-martial for murder, was returned because...
...Jagan government was plotting a rebellion, the evidence to support such a charge in court should have been gathered before troops landed. And, when the British established martial law, they ought, simultaneously, to have arrested the leaders of the conspiracy and charged them with answerable crimes...
...brush in Vag's hand whipped over his glistening shoes in offbeat rhythm to the tune he was whistling. It was "Over There," with many martial trills and cadenzas. ". . .And we won't come back tum de tum tum over there," he finished with a satisfied flick of a shoe cloth...
Forty-Eight Acres. At 10 the third morning, Abdel Hady, standing motionless before the court-martial, heard his fate: death by hanging; confiscation of his $900,000 fortune, except for the 48 acres of land he inherited from his father. Two days later, with a great show of magnanimity, President Naguib's twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council commuted Hady's sentence to life in prison...
...mere hell-raising. All but one of the principal characters are fairly scarifying as future warriors or even as future citizens. There is a blabbing prig, a conniving misfit, an ingratiatingly evil Jocko De Paris (Ben Gaz-zara), a master of midnight ceremonies violent enough to mean court-martial and expulsion...