Word: betray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Provisional Central Committee of Japan's Communist Party was disturbed by police efforts to keep tabs on top Communists whom General MacArthur barred from political activity last spring (TIME, June 19). To insure that lesser Communist fry should not betray their underground leaders through carelessness, the committee issued a directive on how to cope with police shadowing...
Some object to this more exacting standard of judicial examination, asserting that if the Court does not leave the limitation of free speech to the legislatures, it will betray a lack of faith in the democratic process. Others fear that too much freedom will undermine the prestige and efficiency of democracy and thereby endanger that very liberty which we seek to protect. Accordingly, the Court should not impede the legislatures in their efforts to reconcile liberty with authority. Policy should be made not by the judges but by the elected representatives...
...even the critics could force themselves to write that Jeritza's singing had been bad. Explained a nostalgic Viennese: "You can betray the Austrian government any time. But to betray the Opera is treason. Nobody would dare...
Among the AEC's now jobs is work on a submarine for the Navy. The submarine, Pike said, might be able to cruise 15,000 miles at 18 to 30 knots "without leaving a trail of oxygen," that might betray the ship...
Unfortunately, the actors keep getting into the foreground, brandishing passports from Hollywood and posturing through a sprawling script based on the bestselling drugstore novel of Borgia intrigue by Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shella-barger (see BOOKS). The very authenticity of the surroundings helps to betray the story and characters as strictly from Graustark. And even Graustark is betrayed: moviegoers willing to take swashbuckling romance on its own easygoing terms are likely to chafe at the film's portentous pace and the political airs it puts...