Word: betrayal
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...pressure as this destroys the whole ideal of modern education. Presumably a man goes to college not to learn a certain number of facts but to acquire intellectual independence, the power of thinking for himself. If faculties carefully sandbag expressions of opinion which run counter to capitalist interest, they betray that freedom of thought which it is their function to inspire...
...English 10 was deeply imbued with this tradition. To day the too polished speaker is more apt to be distrusted than admired; the prevailing theory, unfortunate as it often is in its results, is that if a man be sufficiently full of his subject, the words will come. To betray attention to old time rules of inflection and gesture, imperfectly mastered, is far more disastrous to the modern speaker than to indicate the obvious fact that he has never studied...
...clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
...less resounding measures of another critic, this time anonymous--who writes on the same subject in the current "New Republic" are a welcome change. He too is a Bostonian, yet he does not betray his old place. Instead he tries to understand and to judge wisely. "Boston", he says, "is like Harvard College twenty years from now. It is living on a reputation that is gone." And though Harvard College in twenty years will without doubt be far from such decadence, the undergraduate who has studied Boston at all can catch his meaning. Boston is in a sense "put away...
Although a year has passed since he was reported to have "betrayed" his then ally, Wu, to Chang (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924) and seized control of Peking, with the consent of Chang, his motives even in that apparent act of bad faith are still under dispute. Some observers have actually asserted that Wu, hard pressed by Chang, asked Feng to "betray" him, in order that he might "flee without disgrace" and recoup his forces, as he has recently managed to do (TIME...