Word: treasonous
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...inheritors of urbanity and indulgences. They belong to garden and bridge clubs; they have exceptional houses, servants, luxuries -- and woes. A Glimpse of Scarlet (HarperCollins; 200 pages; $18.95) watches a divorced mother betrayed by her son's prep school roommate; a man's failing eyesight turn into a "treason of the body"; wavering between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things turn around as soon as they are alone in the bedroom. Once people like these were the focus of Henry...
...this talk, the Communists charge the parish priest with rigging the miracle to trick the faithful and discredit the ruling authorities. A more sophisticated conspiracy theory has the Communist Party plotting and executing the phenomenon so as to expose the church to ridicule, as well as charges of treason against the state. And there is a third possible interpretation: that the hand of God actually reached down into that obscure church to point muddled humans in the right direction...
SUDS raises the dark spectre of accusations of treason upon those who have reservations about the war. "USA," they say, "Love it or leave it." We offer a third alternative--improve...
Near the end of the rally a lone anti-war heckler interrupted the demonstration by shouting obscenities at the protesters. Two Harvard police officers quickly escorted the man away as several in the crowd jeered and shouted "traitor!" and "treason...
...mere peer pressure. When Republican Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska argued on the Senate floor that American involvement in the conflict would only benefit commercial interests ("I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign on the American flag"), the chamber echoed with cries of "Treason! Treason...