Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolutely Communist, yet so clever that much of Asia still toys with the notion that he is really just a Vietnamese patriot. Diem's career has grown mostly out of negative decisions. He is a sparsely gifted administrator, and of politics he says: "Clever maneuvers only betray, demoralize and divide the people." To some of the more sophisticated in the game, he rates as a marginal...
Said the 1951 biography: "Toward the end of 1924, agents of the security police arrested Comrade Vasile Luca and subjected him to untold tortures and sufferings, trying to make him betray names of his comrades and to make him betray his party. Like a true Communist, he remained steadfast and unshaken, and refused to betray the cause." Said last week's indictment: In 1924 he enrolled as an agent for the Rumanian secret police and "acted as an agent provocateur...
...realism in the manner of TV's Dragnet. Robert Taylor is a veteran city detective in the hire of a pair of grafty little Caesars (George Raft and Robert Simon). When Taylor's kid brother (Steve Forrest), an honest rookie cop, identifies a smalltime toughie who can betray Raft and Simon, Sergeant Taylor tries in vain to get the deal squared. Inevitably, the honest brother is bumped off, and the bad brother sees the light. With Janet Leigh's assistance, Taylor hunts down and rubs out the killers in a routine gunfight...
...squinted baffledly at the latest microcephalic assault on science fiction [TIME, Sept. 6]: "Many science-fiction plots betray 'schizophrenic manifestations' in the minds of their authors...
...wife were prim and proper Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped by a band of Russians, though it probably was not the first time; Lilli, fair...