Word: betrayals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent. Colleagues disregarded his drinking and womanizing (he married four times and had several mistresses, including Maclean's wife Melinda), and often spoke of his intelligence and charm. But as Philby explained when he first emerged from silence in 1967, he felt no love for his native land. "To betray you must first belong," he said. "I never belonged...
...professor takes pains to point out that Joseph's views betray "neo-racism," which "is essentially different from old-racism." In Kilson's full explanation, "neo-racism" is "a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some white students--mainly white-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and while this neo-racism is essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country...
Other handy things to know: the Alpine skiers are the ones showing their trademarks to the cameras; the Nordic skiers have the icicles in their beards. Slaloms are perfectible, downhills only survivable. The best biathlete is one whose pounding heart won't betray his rifle's aim. And the speed skaters are the kind dressed like frogmen...
...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...