Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply into his old organization. The mole resembles Kim Philby, the famed British double agent. It was Angleton who provided some of the information that enabled the British to nail down the case against Philby before the English spy fled to Moscow...
What did happen was this: they came there, they did shout traitor while I was speaking. They began punching: a lot of people then came over to see what was happening and sort of encapsulated it. The police then took them off, and one man showed FBI credentials; the other showed CIA credentials; and said, "These are good American citizens, we vouch for them," and they were...
...named Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1943. Liu was considered to be Mao's heir apparent, but his identification with bureaucratic-technocratic policies made him the chief target of the zealous Red Guard levelers of the Cultural Revolution. Denounced as "a renegade, traitor, scab and agent of imperialism," Liu was stripped of party and governmental posts in 1968 and reportedly spent his last years as a laborer on a communal farm...
...insularity, the community used to feel that it had clout in the region's politics. But one of its most illustrious heroes, Mayor James Michael Curley, is long dead, and former House Speaker John McCormack is now retired. Ted Kennedy, another hero, is now seen as a traitor because he supports busing. Even the church seems in alien hands; where once there were Irish-American cardinals, now there is Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, who preaches that the integration order is moral and should be obeyed...
LUIGI BARZINI, Italian author: Three Italian leaders, fused into one man, could be useful today. The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire. After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand. He invented the balance of power to keep the quarrelsome Italian states at peace. Then Camillo Benso di Cavour, farmer, financier, journalist, businessman, who turned tiny Sardinia into the kingdom of Italy in a matter of months...