Word: betrayal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though he wavers, Tony does not "betray" Sam. By the end of the school year, however, Tony's sense of guilt and shame makes him realize that his loyalties were misplaced. Novelist Burt handles his characters with skill and his language with precision, and he has managed to turn out a morality in which he spares his readers any moralizing...
...occasionally to cock his head at the ceiling to get a grasp on his thoughts. As he talks, he comes back to his desk, stands at an easy parade rest, plunging one hand into a pocket, or crossing and uncrossing his arms. His gestures have no oratorical flair, and betray no nervousness. Ike does not squirm or fidget. He moves smoothly, as an athlete moves...
...first, Dessalines made an uneasy peace, explaining privately: "If I surrender a hundred times it will be to betray them a hundred times." Later he led 50,000 black troops in a two-year battle to victory. His hatred of whites, already strong, grew violent. To make his flag, he tore out the white from a French tricolor. When he came to declare in dependence on Jan. 1, 1804, the illiterate Dessalines turned the task over to a patriot who declaimed that "to write the Act of Independence, we need the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull...
...This admission would destroy the purposes, betray the letter, and violate the spirit of the law of the United Nations, whose charter dedicates the organization to insure peace by promoting freedom and respect of human rights, and subordinates the admission of new states to the organization to their ability and willingness, in the judgment of the member nations, to carry out the obligations to the charter as defined above. The so-called Chinese People's Republic is constitutionally unable to do so since it officially declares itself to be a "dictatorship" based on "democratic centralism" (Articles...
Some groups are tougher. It took him three years, Kinsey likes to recall, to win the confidence of "the Times Square underworld." Once the goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...