Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...energies, creating out of next to nothing the greatest armies and armaments the world had seen, bursting into rowdyism, drinking, drabbing, killing, doggedly enduring continual defeat until the strength had been built up for ultimate victory, never quite overcoming, but somehow bypassing at last their own vast corruption, treason, bureaucracy, in efficiency, despair...
Public assassinations of statesmen and kings (probably with the connivance of the police); weird disappearances; bloody purges; sudden emergence of strange characters from underground struggles in Europe's political depths; treason in the highest places; deserters running from all sides to all camps - in the ten years before World War II these curiosa were not merely foretastes of war and the collapse of nations. They were evidence to one East Prussian farmer that "an age has come to its end," because the moral sanctions by which until then men had lived had lost all meaning...
Chomping a sizable slice of humble pie, Secretary of War Stimson last week apologized to Senator Wheeler for his "near treason" blast of the week before, admitted that he had gone off halfcocked...
Said he: "They are traitors because they do not realize the subtle and seemingly innocent forms that treason takes in our modern world. Our job is precisely to make them understand...
California's white-haired Hiram Johnson rose to defend his isolationist colleague: "Every man in this chamber should be proud of you, as I am proud of you today. ... A man is charged with treason. For what? For saying that men in army camps have the right to petition their President. For God's sake, have we reached the point in government where there is no right of ... free speech...