Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Principle's Victory. For two days nothing could be settled. Fantastic incidents, cloak-and-dagger rumors confused the scene. When puffy-eyed, opportunist...
Background of an Opportunist. Of the art of politics John Lewis is a master. No one -except himself- has ever beaten him. Now his switch back into A.F. of L., like his revolt from it in 1935, could be explained in one word: opportunism...
...matters as the current Polish controversy, and in the larger field of postwar relations. In the circumstances as they actually are, President Benes probably will not and cannot fulfill this function. In the opinion of some who are shaping policy in Washington, Dr. Benes is too much of an opportunist; too close to Joseph Stalin, too deeply obligated to the U.S.S.R. And there are other reasons, including the fact that his own political position is under attack from Slovak extremists...
...pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just before he left for Tunisia, when he said...
...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...