Word: betrayal
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...more than halfway abstract, showed things like grasshoppers hopping into scarlet immensities and bushes brandishing their thorns at green skies. The portrait was equally harsh. Posed against a livid yellow background, Maugham sat with folded arms beneath a fringe of tropical palms. His jut-jawed old face seemed to betray a struggle between pain and hauteur...
...chamber is also equipped with a voice recorder so sensitive that it can pick up even the softest and most confidential whisper, and betray it to the concealed investigators...
...case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim of one of the biggest headhunts in the history of Washington politics...
...cannot believe, because you cannot understand, what it is to live under the Russians," she explained. "At first, you don't see anything evil. The pressure comes slowly, incalculably-until suddenly you know you must die or flee or betray." Last night Frau K. sneaked back to her town with little hope. She and the doctor can have no promise of being flown to the West...
...tutor find themselves lost in the mountains, penniless and hungry. They stumble through the parched and worn country; they are chased out of the estate of a decrepit Fascist nobleman; and they are finally held captive by an anti-Fascist fugitive, Renato Spinelli, who fears that they would unwittingly betray him if he let them go. The haggard Spinelli plans a heroic public death for himself, since he knows that he cannot escape. But Frances falls in love with him and persuades him to try to escape with her, only to involve them both in disaster...