Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clique was led by bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi, now 62, Soviet-trained and a seasoned jailbird. The other was led by Laszlo Rajk (rhymes with yoick), boss of underground Hungarian Reds during Nazi occupation. Two years later, Rajk was ousted from the party, "confessed" to being a spy, traitor and informer, and to plotting with Tito to overthrow the Communist regime. Disposition: hanged. Now boss: Rakosi...
Twenty-eight months after the arrest of Traitor Klaus Fuchs (now serving 14 years in jail for transmitting atomic secrets to Russia), the slow-moving British Civil Service had got around to advertising the vacancy and seeking a successor...
...unfortunate that TIME, like many other newspapers and periodicals, has fallen for the Whittaker Chambers story. By the tone of your article you are adding to the prestige of, and admiration for, a man who is a confessed "liar, spy and traitor" as well as an admitted perjurer...
Alger Hiss, accused of being a Communist and a traitor, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities on Aug. 25, 1948: "It is inconceivable that there could have been on my part, during 15 years or more in public office . . . any departure from the highest rectitude . . . anything except the highest adherence to duty and honor...
Whittaker Chambers, at the same Washington hearing, was called a "liar, spy and traitor." He admitted it, calling himself "an erring, inadequate man, capable of folly, sin and fear . . . I only sought prayerfully to know and to do God's purpose with...