Word: treasons
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...feel that they are being charged an exorbitant price for merchandise." The Student Council putting through this drastic idea proclaimed that representatives would be named in all colleges (Sic--Ed.) to receive gripes from aggrieved Cantabs and to make toe the mark any local shylocks accused of the high treason specified. --The Yale News...
...have with the caustic wit of your public utterance stripped the coverings from the stupid pretensions and the cunning treason of both domestic and foreign enemies of the people...
...United States, then they must believe that we are at war. But we are certainly not legally at war. In which case the Executive branch has flatly violated the Constitution by seizing the armed forces and making them subservient to their own private whims. Which is, of course, treason. If this is a true description of the present situation, then the Executive branch should forthwith be tried and convicted of treason and summarily hanged, as duly provided...
...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...