Word: betray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would amount to "professional suicide...
...trial, Art Historian Réau admitted that he had authenticated a Fragonard on the basis of a photograph. This was current procedure, he pleaded. Snapped the public prosecutor: "When Réau and Cordovado betray their mission to protect the public, which is their moral duty, we have a twilight of the art critic gods...
...tassel in the dying lunatic fringe of men dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably all in the same moment. Together they make a team whose picaresque adventures betray a desperation cloaked in human warmth, a cry of anger hidden in humor...
...just felt duty-bound not to betray a confidence," said Pastor Glisson. Other churchmen were outraged. "If this happens," said Dr. Fred Kendall, Tennessee Baptist leader, "how can church members ever confide in their ministers...
...18th century, cosmetics and perfumes had become so popular that the English Parliament passed a law declaring that any woman who "shall impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty against witchcraft, and the marriage . . . shall be null and void...