Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haldeman's expression hardened. Once Nixon's briskly efficient Oval Office guardian and a superpatriot who had publicly equated the acts of Viet Nam War protesters with treason, Haldeman was also pronounced guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and three charges of giving false testimony. Maximum sentence: 25 years...
Isorni first gained notoriety in France following World War II when he unsuccessfully defended collaborationist Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France during the Nazi occupation, against charges of treason. In The True Trial of Jesus, Isorni set out to prove the innocence of the Jewish people. Isorni's thesis is similar to that of Jewish Historian Haim Cohn, author of The Trial and Death of Jesus, and Anglican Scholar S.G.F. Brandon, who wrote The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth. They argue that Jesus was condemned to die not because a Jewish tribunal objected...
...Archbishop Oliver Plunket, primate of Ireland from 1669 to 1681. Beginning in 1673, Irish priests were forced into hiding or exile, and Plunket had to carry on his pastoral work in secrecy and disguise. Arrested in 1679, he was hanged by the English two years later on trumped-up treason charges. Given the bloody religious war now raging in Ulster, the choice of Plunket for canonization in the Holy Year of 1975 seemed to many politically inept...
...attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild dog is treason in Australia...
...ALFRED DREYFUS, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason by a military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Dreyfus never ceased to protest his innocence. The evidence against him was weak from the start and was later shown to have been fabricated. But Dreyfus was a victim of virulent anti-Semitism. His name was not cleared until 1906, after a bitter and divisive struggle between Dreyfus's accusers and the republicans, socialists and anticlericalists who, led by French novelist Emile Zola, defended his innocence...