Word: traitorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student body quickly rallied to support their professors and their president. An effigy bearing the sign, "John Powers--Traitor" went up in flames (an apology was filed the next day), and a group of students drove the 100 miles to Boston to picket the state capitol. Governor Furcolo filed a special message with the legislature on August 24 which forced reconsideration of the salary issue...
...When he returned to liberated Paris in 1944, he recalls, "I did not expect to be praised, but at least to be noticed." In a way he was: he was summoned before France's National Committee of Liberation and denounced by its Communist chairman as a traitor and a Fascist who had betrayed the Resistance and obstructed liberation. Says Soustelle: "It was like a Moscow trial. I realized that if the Communists came to power, they would shoot...
...Throw down those little old guns and toddle off home. There's no getting the Germans down!" Mildred, if she lives so long, will be sprung in 1979, not counting the ten years off that she could get for good behavior. But it was learned last week that Traitor Gillars, eligible for parole last March, took her stand two months earlier, gave no reason but waived all rights to review and parole...
...just twelve hours one day last week, Fidel Castro boldly and brutally crushed his puppet President, Manuel Urrutia. With an expert and cynical maneuver, Strongman Castro set a mob on the Presidential Palace, then went on television to denounce Urrutia as a "traitor." Not since the time in the 1930s when Dictator Fulgencio Batista went through five puppets in two years had a President of Cuba been treated with such contempt...
...Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...