Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...
...been said that Premier Ramsay MacDonald is a politician and an opportunist before a Socialist. Philip Snowden is a Socialist before all else, yielding nothing, "consumed with one passionate purpose," "a Robespierre of concentrated and remorseless purpose...
...every man, whether a pacifist or an opportunist," continued the speaker, "by the League of Nations or by the World Court,--let him strive to abolish war and to substitute trial by jury for trial by battle. Let every man obey his own individual conscience, even to the point of refusing to obey his country's orders--let him refuse to fight, if he thinks it evil. The abolitionists won their fight for slavery against the efforts of a united nation; why cannot we win with such a message to the world?", he concluded...
Doctrinaire Became Opportunist...
...Record. The appointment of Bavarian Dr. Gessler to the post of Military Dictator of Germany, a position formerly filled with varying success by William of Hohenzollern, was made by President Ebert. Dr. Gessler was described as an opportunist. He has been in three successive Cabinets, each of which has had a separate policy: Wirth Government, pledged to paying reparations; Cuno Government, pledged to maintaining passive resistance and refusing to pay reparations; Stresemann Government, pledged to seeking an exit from political, financial and economic depression. To each of these Governments the versatile Gessler has given his wholehearted support. He is considered...