Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admission of Guilt. With his ear-to-ear grin and coonskin cap routine, Estes Kefauver has often been dismissed by pundits as an excessively folksy light weight. But in his battle against "Tip" Taylor, the Keef showed bracing political courage. When Taylor called him a traitor to the South for voting for the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills, Kefauver defended the bills on the steps of every courthouse where he could draw a crowd. "I shall continue to favor the expansion of the right to vote," he said in Memphis, Tennessee's most strongly segregationist city, "until every...
...Before a political rally in Alexandria, Nasser accused the Shah of being a tool of "imperialism," and, in classic fashion, all but invited the Shah's subjects to assassinate their king. Egypt's Ministry of Religious Affairs directed imams to preach sermons against the Shah as a "traitor to Islam," and Nasser urged his fellow Arab nations to withdraw their ambassadors from Teheran too. So far only Saudi Arabia has agreed, and on condition that all other Arab League nations made it unanimous...
...announced that in the future they would be "lovable." This concession outraged many Zengakuren hotheads who labeled the Communists "sissified," and voted into the top leadership a toughminded Trotskyite group, which is now called the "mainstream faction." Mainstreamers are so far out politically that they consider Khrushchev a "traitor" to the proletariat. As a result, Communist students are considered "moderates" by the Japanese press in contrast with the club-swinging mainstreamers. But it was the Communist "moderates" who besieged Hagerty's car at the airport...
...Angels. After his dramatic conversion, Paul spent about three years in Arabia, thinking through his new faith or preaching it. When he returned to Damascus, trouble was waiting for him. The Jewish community, looking on him as a traitor, had made arrangements with the Governor of the province to have Paul arrested. His fellow Christians promptly hid him, and his enemies, knowing that he must try to escape from the city, set up a constant watch at each of the Damascus gates. There followed the first of the many escapes that make Paul's life something of a Biblical...
...Middle East, who, as Foreign Minister and U.N. delegate, long represented and spoke for the late great and hated Nuri asSaid. Reported tortured and murdered by a street mob during the bloody 1958 revolution, Jamali turned up bruised but alive in a military jail. Tried as a traitor before Baghdad's infamous People's Court, he was sentenced to hang, a sentence commuted last week to ten years' imprisonment...