Word: treasonably
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...culture's postwar flirtation with infidelity and angst in his Broadway farce The Seven Year Itch. The film version, with Marilyn Monroe, brought him to Hollywood, where he wrote the scripts for Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's and that classic spiked cocktail of melodrama, satire and treason, The Manchurian Candidate. His two films as writer-director, Lord Love a Duck and The Secret Life of an American Wife, are revered by comedy cultists...
...after a merciless government crackdown. Police, soldiers and pro-Mugabe gangs beat up opponents. Two people died, at least 400 were arrested and dozens more filled hospitals in the capital, Harare. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained for a day and then rearrested later in the week on fresh treason charges. Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights said it had received reports of arbitrary detentions, assault and torture. While calls for the biggest demonstrations "since independence" failed to spark - soldiers wearing no to mass action T shirts took up positions on Harare's street corners just to make sure - business...
...describe the highly conservative crowd, King said “This group thought the Revolutionary War was treason...
...rebellion in order to send in troops on the foundering Canadian-Pacific Railway. Declaring that God doesn't want the Métis to use guerrilla tactics, Riel disastrously waits for the soldiers who promptly end the Métis rebellion. The final issues recreate Riel's trial for treason where he must reluctantly submit to being defended on an insanity plea. Found guilty, he dies at the gallows...
...sent to a labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. Now his doggedness has prompted one of Castro's most ironfisted crackdowns: scores of Paya's fellow dissidents have been arrested for treason and given lengthy prison terms. Paya, 51, says he's undeterred. "We're the first nonviolent force for change this island has ever known," he told TIME by phone from Havana. "Castro can't crush that, no matter how hard he tries...