Word: betrayal
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...what a Rock! As a Canadian officer on duty with Britain's Desert Rats he nurtures a virile stubble and seldom lets his baritone betray emotion, whether he is spraying the Germans with his flamethrower or trading insults with a grain-of-Sandhurst major (Nigel Green). From first fade-in to final fadeout, Rock more than lives up to his name...
Ironically, Dan was en route to hear the government's reply to the assembly's latest protest against Article 20 when his car was demolished. Chief of State Thieu delivered the answer anyway: the generals would keep their veto. To do otherwise, he said, would "betray the confidence of the voters," who had elected the assembly with the understanding that the present government would keep an avuncular watch over all decisions. Urged on by a letter from Dan sent from his convalescent bed, the assembly vowed to continue to press its case against the government...
...betray his duty and then betray the woman he loves, there is no good in the man.' Thus, although he may keep his throne if he 'renounces' Mrs. Simpson, he will have lost the respect of his subjects...
...year unanimously favored some form of tax increase to deflate demand and take some of the pressure off the money market, but the President overruled it. Feeling that he was not equipped to deal with the political aspects of the problem, Chairman Gardner Ackley said nothing in public to betray his real feelings...
...history and men betray him. His cart breaks down, so he rides bareback to his fate. He cannot leave himself behind; the horse "looks like an old Jew," and as he canters, ambles, trots and staggers across the black plain, Yakov can only be seen as a Jewish Quixote. It could also be said of his dream of "good fortune and a comfortable house," in the conditions of the Ukraine of that day, that nothing could be more hopelessly quixotic. He trades his Rosinante for a ferry ride and enters the holy city of Kiev. As a final renunciation...