Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...P.L.O. ranks are equipped with Soviet weapons, "a tool of international Communism." Shukairy became personal. He accused the Jordan royal family of corruption, claimed that Hussein's brother Prince Mohammed operated an arms-import racket that provided Israelis with weapons. Shukairy's agents began whispering the word traitor against Hussein in Jordan's refugee camps. To a refugee population obsessed with a return to Palestine, such charges go over dangerously well...
...that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live." He was, says Kaplan, obsessed with "the rustle and chink and heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...
Died. Norman Baillie-Stewart, 57, British traitor twice over, a onetime army lieutenant who served five years at hard labor for passing secret information to the Germans in 1932, later went to Berlin to offer his services to the Nazis and spent World War II as a minor broadcasting clerk (nothing more because the Germans thought he was a spy); of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...Elisa, Napoleon's eldest sister, was a shrewd, bald bluestocking with "the soul of a libertine in the body of a spinster" and only two claims to fame: 1) she made a fortune selling marble busts of her brother, and 2) to preserve her properties, she turned traitor and delivered Florence to the allies...
...establishment disowns him. After keeping this secret for 15 cataleptic years, Howard hardly believes it himself, and surrenders to stand trial in Israel as a war criminal. At length Washington relents, and Howard is freed. Yet freedom is the last thing he wants. A private hero and a public traitor, a pawn sacrificed to patriotism, he sentences himself to death "for crimes against himself." Author Vonnegut's writing style is a long way from Parnassus; the satire sometimes vanishes in polemic...