Word: backbitten
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...exile for a great many years, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson] had shot at and wounded the Secretary of State for War [Sir James Grigg] or the head of one or the other of the spending departments - if we who sit here together had all backbitten and double-crossed each other while pretending to work together, if we had all put our own group and party first and our country nowhere, if we had all set ideologies, slogans or labels in front of comprehension, comradeship and duty, we should certainly have come to a general election...
While Mensheviks and Bolsheviks struggle for ascendancy, Professor Polezhayev (Nikolai Cherkassov) does not attempt to hide his sympathy for the Bolshevik minority, is boycotted by his students, backbitten by his colleagues, betrayed by Disciple Vorobiev (Otto Zhakov). To express his feelings the professor merely quotes Darwin: "Omne nisi discipulos" ("Heaven deliver me from pupils!"). Accused of being a German spy, he sits down to his birthday banquet alone with his wife...
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