Word: betray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought I was [someone named] Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have had a tough time getting me to betray it." But by then poor Noel was beginning to realize that he and intelligence were not made for each other...
Hoettl, a graduate student in Vienna University when he entered the secret service, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and claims to have been a big espionage wheel, but his book and his personal history betray him as more of a pinwheel. In The Secret Front, he twirls about in windy draughts of gossip, secondhand information, hero worship, pure invention and long-fermented spite...
...Catholicism to smile indulgently upon men and pat them on the back, as it were. Catholicism thus comes forward as the friend of man, whereas Protestantism, with its unrelenting emphasis on judgment, sometimes appears as his enemy." Catholics' "spiritual geniality," writes Herberg, often combines with secularism to betray "Catholics into too easy an acquiescence in the banalities, timidities and mediocrities of everyday life-provided they do not violate the conventional decencies...
...culminated in the charges against Oppenheimer were laid before the finger of suspicion was pointed at him. His mood in 1945 was one of deep conviction that he and his colleagues had to change the world, that they had to triumph over men who might, through stupidity and immorality, betray society-which Oppenheimer, at least, had only recently discovered, and which had become precious to him, as his salvation from what he considered the sin of Alamogordo...
...statement to the CRIMSON last night the Lubells attacked the name-calling but did not deny the charge. "To answer the listing would be to betray principle," they said. "Dr. Einstein . . . called upon the intellectuals to refuse 'to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private lives and political affiliations of the citizens...