Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat crime Ford would propose laws imposing the death penalty for sabotage, treason, espionage and murder by a "coldblooded, hired killer." He would also continue to endorse mandatory minimum sentences for drug trafficking, kidnaping and airplane hijacking. The President has already suggested a federally backed "insurance" program to compensate the victims of federal crimes, paying them...
...hear! hear!", reveling in a pale imitation of the pageantry of a real national convention. 'Register Kissinger not Firearms,' 'The Rock Owns a Piece of Me,' and 'Don't Re-elect Anybody' bumper stickers; dead-babies' ingarbage-cans armbands; plastic gold noose lapel pins (for 'Public Officials convicted for treason'); pistol tie clips...
Thus last week the dangerous enterprise of American independence began. Besides Hancock, none of the members of Congress signed the Declaration ?that will perhaps come later and may depend somewhat on the American fortunes in the war: if they sign, the members could be hanged for treason...
...Declaration of Independence is a triumph not only for Hancock but for the whole Boston delegation; yet their triumph is shadowed by the absence of James Otis. Accused of treason by the British customs commissioners in 1769, he publicly denounced them as liars. One of them attacked him with a cutlass and delivered such a severe blow to the head that Otis has since lost his reason. He was awarded ?2,000 in damages, but has never successfully resumed his career. He now lives in retirement, with intermittent spells of insanity...
Your review of John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company [May 31], instigated the following speculation. If other historical miscreants had written novels based on their experiences, American literature would have been enriched by the following: a psychological study of treason by Benedict Arnold, detailing how a simple soldier was pressured by society to become a turncoat: a thriller by John Wilkes Booth showing how he was really a misunderstood hero who had been seduced into crime by evil Yankee villainy; a political novel by Jefferson Davis, describing the daily life and irritations of a fictional President...