Word: martinets
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...angry man. But there is more than artless optimism or patriotism beneath the surface of his stories. Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There is an indictment in Marjorie Morningstar-of Noel Airman, the restless Bohemian...
...isle of Jersey in 1864, Elinor Sutherland and her sister were brought up there and in Canada by her soon-widowed mother and various in-laws. In backwoods Ontario, the Sutherland girls were schooled in French and all the social graces. A ferociously aristocratic grandmother was a martinet on bearing, forever challenged the girls: "How would [you] behave on the steps of the guillotine...
According to a current survey by the French National Research Council, 15% of French parents still beat the devil out of their children with a form of cat-o'-nine-tails, a contraption of wood and thongs known to the French as le martinet. Town kids get walloped more often but less severely than their country cousins, who are, says the survey, the "happiest and dirtiest" in the nation...
...early this year, the chief surgeon, a stern moralist as well as a martinet, learned that Rudloff was involved in a clandestine love affair with a female nurse on the staff. The chief surgeon told them bluntly to break off their romance or get out. Rudloff bowed to the edict, but his resentment deepened. Soon bad luck began to attend the chief surgeon's practice. Three of his patients, well on the road to recovery after their operations, suddenly took a turn for the worse and died. In each case, death was attributed to postoperative complications and the bodies...
Before him now lies Britain's top field command: commander in chief of the Army of the Rhine. A lean, austere martinet who characterizes himself as "a professional soldier ... no politician," Templer had expected no fond farewells in Malaya. Yet all the way to the airport from his gubernatorial mansion, his Rolls Royce had been mobbed by cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil...