Word: opportunistic
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...Marshal Pétain and Commander in Chief of all French sea, land and air forces, had come to Algiers some time before the invasion, ostensibly to visit his sick son. In the Allied attack, the first step toward his country's liberation under Allied colors, Darlan the opportunist saw the great chance of his career...
...Last week the Tribune published a nine-column defense of itself which revealed some of the testimony brought out earlier at a Navy investigation: the Washington date line on the story was phony. It originated in Chicago and was credited to Stanley Johnston, a garrulous, black-mustachioed, Australian-born opportunist who had served in the Australian Army in World War I, knocked around Europe and the Orient for 20 years, worked for the Tribune's London bureau. He came to the U.S. after the fall of France, married a former showgirl (whom he had met in Paris), and became...
...plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...
...York-born Lewis Mumford is no intellectual opportunist. He was long a disciple of the late Sir Patrick Geddes, the sociologist-biologist-philosopher who gave him his enthusiasm for sound city planning. A self-styled "basic communist," Mumford disapproved of Marxists but writhed when he was called a "liberal." A man of parts, he wrote excellent architectural criticism for The New Yorker, lectured at Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard, got himself denounced as "a sublimated recruiting officer" when he called for a U.S. break with Germany, Italy and Japan...
...degree to which convention is outraged is up to the hostess,' declares the little pamphlet issued by the employment office. 'I am an opportunist,' says Jeeves, who happens to live in Lowell House, 'and I grab my chances where I see them...