Word: betrayal
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...other council members, and many of the activists behind the drive for the open meeting, said a closed discussion would betray their goals...
...years -- he retired in 1952 -- were clouded by his failure to realize that the Soviets had penetrated SIS and were reading his own mail. "Only people with foreign names commit treason," he once said, and he was unwilling to believe that a fellow golden boy like Kim Philby could betray Crown and country and the establishment that had been so good to both of them...
...dark past. They finance their undergraduate and graduate educations with loans supplied by the federal government at subsidized rates, promising to repay the American taxpayer once they find an occupation. But, in numbers far greater than one would expect from so privileged a group, these future leaders will betray that trust...
...year is 1780. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of the British forces attempting to put down the rebellion in the 13 American colonies, has received a startling and welcome bit of news. General Benedict Arnold may be willing to betray the revolutionary cause and, in the bargain, to arrange for the surrender of his stronghold at West Point. Sir Henry needs a liaison between himself and Arnold to conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from...
...clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some petty -- run the gamut of human failings, from weakness of will to moral laxity to hypocrisy to uncontrolled avarice...