Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee could find no evidence of treason on his part. Instead, they indicted him on seven counts of perjury. If imprisoned because of any one of them, he will thenceforth be known as the "convicted perjurer-traitor" by large segments of the American press and public, so it is as convenient a charge...
...ancient Holy Week ceremonial which they have colored and absorbed into their own folklore. In effigy, "Monsieur Judas" will come to visit the peasants as one of the twelve apostles and an honored guest. But as soon as the death of Christ is announced on Good Friday, the symbolic traitor will flee, and the hunt will begin early on Holy Saturday...
Peter Viereck, many will say, is a sloppy historian, a traitor to his class, an accomplices of McCarthy's, and a panderor to the public taste. For his is an annoying book, with a host of annoying features--and the most irritating one of all is that Viereck is so very often right...
...Fires. Von Einsiedel was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Moscow. There he found himself between two fires: the aimless cruelty of the Russians and the purposeful vindictiveness of some of his fellow Germans, who had heard about the leaflet and regarded von Einsiedel as a traitor. Wonderingly, not sure of his own motives, von Einsiedel felt himself pulled by the "magical attraction" of Communism's "well-knit, clear religion." He joined the small group of German officers, under Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, in the Russian-sponsored Committee for Free Germany...
John David Provoo, traitor to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 23), stood up for sentencing last week before Judge Gregory F. Noonan of the U.S. district court in Manhattan. Tearfully, he cried: "Your Honor . . . I love my country." Said Judge Noonan: "Traitors all are to be despised." Yet, because of Provoo's "great emotional instability," the court spared him the extreme penalty of death, sentenced him, instead, to life imprisonment...