Word: traitor
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Emboldened, the crowd in Wenceslas began shouting, "Husák is a traitor, Husák is a traitor!" In response, police lobbed tear-gas grenades. As people fled the square, the side streets were quickly blocked by troops. Bands of helmeted police waded into the fleeing demonstrators, indiscriminately clubbing young and old alike...
...black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, it has become in some places on the continent a synonym for traitor...
Malinchista: traitor to the Mexican-American cause. From Mal-inche, the daughter of a Mexican nobleman, who became Cortes' mistress and aided the Spanish in their conquest of Mexico...
Because of the fear and fluidity in postwar Europe, the Russians found Gehlen's organization easy to infiltrate with double agents, primarily ex-Nazis like Heinz Felfe. Felfe, similar to Britain's renowned traitor Kim Philby, for ten years ran the Russian desk of West Germany's counterintelligence service. Acting as a Russian agent, Felfe effectively negated the Gehlen organization's counterespionage efforts against Russia while keeping Russia informed on operational intentions of the END and the Allies. The exposure of Felfe's treachery in 1961 almost cost Gehlen...
...reflected the fact that Northern Ireland's politics are still ruled by prejudice and personalities. The patrician Prime Minister is a cautious and moderate man who talks about issues; his opponents stir their followers with appeals to passion. Extremist Paisley, for instance, calls O'Neill a "traitor and a tyrant," and his followers delight in scrawling "F-k the Pope" on boardings. Only the extremist factions received any real psychological lift from the elections, an ill omen for the troubled country...