Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other suspect. Assume a complication. Baldwin is now in line for a sensitive embassy post in Washington. Security people cannot approve his promotion without clearing up past questions. Ludley, now living well beyond the reach of punishment, must be persuaded to tell the truth about that distant act of treason...
...ceremony reflected renewed concern about Shcharansky, who became a world-renowned political prisoner and a symbol of official Soviet anti-Semitism following his well-publicized trial in 1978. A champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R., he had been made the victim of a trumped-up treason case. Shcharansky was accused of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to three years in prison and ten in a hard-labor camp, despite his denial and President Jimmy Carter's categorical refutation of the charges...
JOSEPH McCARTHY--America's premier Red-hunter--levelled accusations of treason at people he knew nothing about, often not even their names. He lied with such boldness that he distracted a nation and shot it full of distrust. Few regret it more than journalists. By offering the print of page-one articles and the air-time of lead stories, American news media fed McCarthy the publicity he needed. Edwin R. Bayley focuses on that process in his new book, McCarthy and the Press. In a world seemingly vulnerable to media-made images, he offers the comforting notion that today...
...moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann, by his own admission, was the ultimate team player...
...other moderates. At one point, Khaddam announced that he was tired and hungry. Hassan turned and said that if he wanted a meal, an airplane was ready to take him back to Damascus. Finally, when Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Ati Obeidi declared the Fahd plan to be "outright treason," Hassan could stand no more. He gaveled the meeting to a close...