Word: traitorousness
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...custody on Friday. During a session of the parliament earlier in the week devoted largely to finger pointing or to attempts by some members to convince others that they had nothing to do with the conspiracy, Lukyanov's voice was one of the shrillest. "I could never be a traitor to a man I've known for 40 years," he said, referring to his law-school classmate. Gorbachev obviously did not believe Lukyanov -- he refused even to acknowledge his old comrade when they passed in a corridor -- and others have fingered Lukyanov as the ideological mastermind of the plot...
...Feminists call you a backslider and a traitor, conservatives say you sound like a big-spending liberal, and liberals say you sound like a reactionary. Why do so many different groups attack...
...would take courage for Hussein to democratize his country. Many loyal Jordanians would brand him a traitor. But their choices too have narrowed. If the King doesn't act, he'll lose power, leaving them without a monarch to help preserve their rights in New Palestine...
Although the practice has died down recently, teenage judges presided over so-called people's courts that almost casually handed out death sentences to suspected traitors. A youth invention that has not disappeared is "necklacing," the method of mob execution in which a gasoline-doused rubber tire is thrown around a suspected traitor's body and set ablaze...
...President's "Manifesto for the New South Africa" drew a wildly mixed response. In Parliament outraged members of the opposition Conservative Party called De Klerk a "traitor to the nation" before staging the first mass opening-day walkout in the legislature's history. "The fight is on for the survival of white people," asserted Ferdie Hartzenberg, deputy leader of the Conservative Party...