Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Carnera has been reported wounded in action. He has been reported shot for treason by the Fascists. But last week the former world's heavyweight champion was reported gloriously alive, the victim of the most ignominious defeat in his ponderous career...
Near the East Prussian border with Lithuania stood the windmill of Tauroggen. Inside sat a disgusted Prussian general. He was about to commit treason. Across the table sat a Russian general, in command of Russia's forces in the Baltic. The Prussian had orders to take Riga, but he promised the Russians...
...strange historical coincidences lay profound historic causes. Once more the whole Junker caste had reached the windmill at Tauroggen. Once more the Junker, whose whole justification for being was their embodiment of the Prussian state, faced an age-old conflict-Prussia v. Russia, patrician v. plebeian, military honor v. treason...
...embodied their great tradition and their desperate dilemma was the man who indicted Yorck von Wartenburg and his seven gallows-mates for treason against the Third Reich and conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler-Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt...
Shortage of Time. Washington itself was divided. Many in the Administration wanted to begin an orderly reconversion to peace now, as against the Somervell school, who think that any talk of reconversion now is next door to treason. To the Reconversionists, General Somervell's blast seemed like a blow below the belt...