Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subconscious jealousy of Novelist Davis, froths out a shelfload of bestsellers. As Author Hopkins' royalties soar, her husband (John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses to betray her helpless, foolish friend. In early middle age Miss Davis has a discreet affair with a naval officer ten years her junior. But he prefers Miss Hopkins' daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born...
...vehicle staging area (Armyese for any place where troops and supplies are readied for overseas), women workers grinned through their grease. With spray gun and grease gun. the women coated the glass of vehicles destined for deck load so no warning reflection would betray the convoy, smeared the underparts for protection against salt spray. They drained gas tanks and radiators, checked and charged batteries, sealed all engine openings...
...presence of jungle animals and jungle people, the book strives to reassure him : most animals are harmless unless bothered; except in New Guinea and Assam (India), jungle men are gentle - in fact, they like to play cat's cradle, and usually, if he treats them kindly, will not betray a man's presence to the enemy...
...unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
...Year's Day Australians put the final squeeze on Giropa Point, while Americans closed in on the Government Station area. That day saw the first break in Jap do-or-die morale: 23 surrendered without trying to betray their conquerors. Others, clutching logs and lifebelts, tried to swim away, were picked off by sharks and sharpshooters. Next day the station area was occupied. Low-flying planes strafed the last refugees paddling through...