Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion, it had violated its constitutional neutrality in favoring a Socialist victory. ¶ He supported State Secretary Otto Lenz's scheme for a new Ministry of Information, backed down only after the press fiercely attacked it as too reminiscent of Goebbelsism. ¶He indicated that he would reward Opportunist Waldemar Kraft's new BHE (Refugee Party) with one or two Cabinet jobs if it "behaved properly." With Kraft's support, Adenauer would have a two-thirds Bundestag majority, enabling him to change the constitution if need be. All these proposals would cause little alarm in a well...
McCarthy's dubious service to the 22% who needed his tutelage accounts for less than half the McCarthy myth. The rest of it was supplied by the New and Fair Dealers who set out to prove that this cunning opportunist was the reincarnation of Torquemada, Huey Long and Hitler...
Most of the links prove to be rusty or broken. His old employer is dead. And the employer's daughter, a girl who longed to marry well, has settled for a cheap cardsharp. The local priest is a sly opportunist, and the villagers are clamped in the narrow vise of ignorance...
...necessary in the kind of regime he ran. He killed until he died. He killed methodically, almost as if to say: nothing personal, merely inevitable. Or was that all? "Stalin's . . . spite," wrote Lenin, ". . . is a most evil factor in politics." Said Trotsky: "He is a kind of opportunist with a bomb." In the outer world, in those days, many intellectuals excused Stalin's methodical slaughter as a necessary first step toward a Communist paradise on earth...
...grows on you." Brownell never went on the convention floor. He sat in his hotel room listening, thinking, remembering. A close associate says that his greatest asset then was his memory of the two previous conventions. He knew who had stood up under stress, who was a mild opportunist, who was a waverer, who had given and broken his word, who had a grievance and what the grievance...