Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Librarian of Congress Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill and Leon Blum are in the vocabulary of the Nazi radio." To Poet MacLeish...
...originally named Burrville after Aaron Burr. When Burr was tried for treason, the town's name was changed to Clinton in honor of Vice President George Clinton...
...street-fighting in Bogota. Six months later, many of Rojas' political opponents were killed or maimed by government thugs for having booed his daughters at the bullfights. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights found vast "zones of military operation" where military courts were empowered to try civilians for treason with none of the usual Constitutional safeguards. 50,000 peasants had already been "exiled" from their homes, many of them for having protested against the extortion rackets of corrupt local officials...
Thus, almost eight years after his trial and imprisonment on trumped-up treason charges, Cardinal Mindszenty, 64, Prince Primate of all Hungary and most famed prelate of the "Silent Church," last week came forth to freedom-a freedom that might prove tragically short-lived...
...that document Khrushchev charges Stalin with "the most brutal violation of Socialist legality" and treason during...