Word: vidkun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feared the hall offered too many opportunities to terrorists. In changing the venue, Begin's guardians unconsciously added an element of historical irony to this year's ceremony. The 14th century Akershus served during World War II as headquarters for that quintessential Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite, Vidkun Quisling...
...Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary term for ruthless and reckless mudslinging and demagogic suppression of criticism; and he will live on in our lexical language with such other extremists as the Marquis de Sade, William Lynch, Thomas Bowdler, Vidkun Quisling, and Anthony Comstock...
Other major collaborators-Norway's Vidkun Quisling, France's Pierre Laval-were executed long ago by their countrymen, but Degrelle managed to escape to Spain. Though a Belgian court later sentenced him to death for high treason, the Franco regime has continued to insist that no one by the name of Léon Degrelle lives in Spain...