Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit meeting with Russia, but the implication was clear in the words: There can be "no substitute for personal encounter in the pursuit of human understanding . . . When men who profess the Christian religion make no adequate provision for a face-to-face encounter with their enemies, they betray the religion which they profess...
...quick extemporizing, the youthful Van Dyck also left the canvas with some unresolved problems. The yellow robe of Judas, as he turns to betray Jesus, billows stiffly, forming a disconcerting, nostril-like free form; Peter's violent attack against Malchus (one of the high priest's servants) is nearly thrown off the picture at lower left...
...operations and marked with the uncomfortable distinction of being the first Jew ever elevated to the French General Staff. Meanwhile, over at the German embassy, another French officer, one Major Esterhazy, is making arrangements to supplement his army pay with German gold, for which he is ready to betray French military secrets. When one of Esterhazy's treasonable notes is intercepted by French agents, the handwriting is identified by a self-styled expert as that of Captain Dreyfus. When it is pointed out to the expert that the handwriting in the note does not, in fact, resemble that...
...Kashmir people." He accused Nehru's government of discriminating against Kashmir's Moslem majority by denying them army promotions and postal jobs, of setting up a central intelligence bureau in Srinagar to bribe and corrupt his officials, of sabotaging his land-reform program. "I did not betray India," he roared. "It was India that betrayed...
...fabrication isn't difficult because he has not yet learned to doubt his teachers. It was made easier in the satellites because the parents could not effectively refute what was taught. Some parents dared not interfere because of the fear that their children might, with innocent words, betray them to the school authorities. Braver parents did what they could to plant seeds of truth in their children. Some declared in desperation, "I would rather have no children than foster a communist...