Word: betrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University Police Department are, like any other officers, sworn to uphold the law. Whenever possible they give the benefit of the doubt to Harvard students, and rarely do they make arrests unless safety or property is threatened. They are concerned primarily with our welfare, and their recent actions betray no other motive. --Marco B. Simons '97 Director, Safety Walk Member, Harvard College Security Committee Chair, HRUC Student Affairs Committee
...policy process: taking what is under one's own control and subjecting it to veto by a party with a different constituency and different interests. The Shackle is a self-imposed corrosive on the council's credibility; by subjecting council resolutions to such a potentially damning process, council members betray a terrible insecurity over where their true base of support really lies. The Shackle seeks the Dean's endorsement as a poor substitute for what it should be spending time seeking: endorsement and validation by students...
Abandoned by Jenny and the other lumberjacks, Jimmy is tried and sentenced to death for his inability to pay. Again, throughout the trial sequence, Jimmy appears as a victim of the system, possessing an innocence that his wanton actions do not betray. His distinguishing feature is a yearning for total anarchic freedom, a desire that is stymied by the government of Mahagonny. After his execution the city falls apart; its citizens' total freedom has intensified their ideological differences, and the center cannot hold...
Please be more careful, for your own sakes. If not, I will volunteer to act as an occasional copy editor and would encourage the staff to include this position separate from any administrative editorial position for every issue. Do not let carelessness betray your efforts. --Nick Szumski...
...year now, the President and I have been fighting those forces in Congress who would cut our foreign affairs budget so deeply that we would have to draw back from our leadership," he said. "They betray a lack of appreciation for what America has accomplished in the last 50 years and a lack of confidence that our great nation can shape the future...