Word: treasonously
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...IDAF was founded in 1956 to help defend 156 Black South Africa accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman. Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South Africa history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
...IDAF was founded in 1956 to help defend 156 Black South Africans accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman, Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South African history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
...developing sense of vocation come in letters later than those included here." His statement is, at the very least, open to question. On the subject of the Dreyfus case, for example, I am for the innocent captain and against the corrupt military men who accuse him of treason. These Dreyfusard letters foreshadow my special pleading for those whom society punishes by exclusion. And when I speak about a youthful search "for the grain of poetry indispensable to existence," I forecast the nuances of my later work, summoning up the floating vistas of Combray and the light-suffused salons of Paris...
...IDAF was founded in 1956 to help defend 156 Black South Africans accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman, Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South African history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
...Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful day that Henry spoke, there was a still unidentified spy from the French government among the listeners. He reported the British predicament to Paris in accurate detail...