Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crying Treason. At week's end, it appeared that with the army's disciplined support. Menderes had put down the challenge. But the outburst expressed rising resentment among Turkish students and intellectuals against his strongman rule...
Adnan Menderes, the man who walked bloody but unbroken from a 1959 plane crash that killed fifteen, was not the man to moderate his ways in such an hour. Next day he went on the air to charge the Republicans with virtual treason. The students, he said, had become "tools of conspirators" and "fanatic party followers." He called their demonstrations "plots against the country's security." "They will soon learn," he said in his disarmingly soft voice, "what it means to stand against the state." In the morning, the Premier visited Ankara student dormitories-and got no back talk...
...March 21 et seq.) took on unprecedented proportions. Masan has long been a stronghold of opposition to Rhee's Liberals. In 1956 the people of Masan gave Rhee only half as many votes as Progressive Party Candidate Cho Bong Am (later hanged by Rhee's police for treason). Masan's voters flatly refused to believe that this time they had voted Liberal by nearly...
...Castro's Cuba, disagreement with such doctrine has come to mean treason; so also does antiCommunism. Last week the rate of treason thus defined climbed dramatically...
There are six capital crimes under federal law (murder, rape, bank robbery, kidnaping, treason, espionage) and some 30 under state laws (e.g., aiding a suicide in Arkansas or burning a railway bridge in Georgia), but in practice the death penalty is seldom carried out in the U.S. for offenses other than 1) murder and 2)rape committed by a Negro in the South. Of the 97 men executed in the U.S., in 1958-59 under state laws, 81 were convicted of murder, 15 of rape (14 Negroes, one white, all in Southern states), and one of armed robbery (a Negro...