Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force talked about a court-martial. The National Park people muttered darkly about a $500 fine for flyers who go around landing on their mountain tops-their rescue team was stuck up on the icy peak. Said Hodgkin: "I think Americans are beginning to lose their self-reliance. I'd be glad to fly back up there and get them...
...Association for Fighting the A.I.O.C., rallied in the capital's Majlis Square in defiance of police orders. Young men wearing lapel buttons decorated with Picasso's dove and the word "peace" led a crowd of 7,000 in clenched-fist salutes, in shouts for the abolition of martial law in the oilfields and the freeing of Communist political prisoners...
Solemnly and urgently, Premier Ala warned the Majlis that the country faced one of its "most critical and dangerous moments in history." He won parliamentary approval for his proclamation of martial law in seven areas of southern Iran...
...reporting a court-martial conviction last year, the Army's Stars & Stripes in Germany made what seemed a small mistake: it got the accused's middle initial wrong. The accused was Lieut. Colonel Richard F. Whitcomb, convicted of looting a requisitioned house in Germany (his conviction was later reversed). But in getting the story over the phone, Stars & Stripes put down Whitcomb's initial as "S." From that point on, the mistake grew to impressive proportions...
...realize that four-letter words are "good-humored billingsgate . . . and not significant." That Author Wouk has absolute control of the Caine's little world will be granted by anyone who has seen a ship like the Caine at work, or by anyone who has witnessed a court martial like the one in which Maryk wins acquittal...