Word: treasonous
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...Meaning of Treason...
...Mont., Idaho, Wash. use the gallows. Utah offers the prisoner a choice of hanging or shooting. Thirty-three states execute by lethal gas, or electrocution. There is no capital punishment in Me., Mich., Wis., Minn., N. Dak., R.I. (but some of these states make exceptions in special cases, e.g., treason or, as in N. Dak., a first degree murder committed by a person already serving a life sentence for an earlier murder...
Nearly six years ago, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of treason, espionage and black-market dealings. The world has not forgotten that it took the Reds 24 days to obtain his "confession" or that his own lawyer thanked the prosecution. Last week a report carried out of Hungary by a French businessman said that Mindszenty was free...
...went to Stockholm for the acceptance ceremony. He would like to talk about a half-forgotten poet and great stylis-Ezra Pound. Poet Pound used to look over Hemingway's early manuscripts in Paris and returned them, mercilessly blue-penciled, the adjectives gone. Indicted for treason for his pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II, Pound was declared "mentally incompetent" in 1946 and is now in Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital. "Ezra Pound is a great poet," says Hemingway fiercely, "and whatever he did he has been punished greatly and I believe should...
...kind of bark that Joseph Stalin, at that time in the middle of his struggle for power, liked. Three years later Vishinsky was State Prosecutor in a series of trials of former Bolsheviks charged with treason, terrorism and various crimes against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave...