Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles de Gaulle: "With the Hun in Paris, Bordeaux. Lille, Reims and Strasbourg, and with the Italians pretending to dictate their will to the French nation, there is nothing else to do but fight. ... To treat with the enemies, to accept their control, to cooperate with them, is to betray the fatherland...
...jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become the combination hero-and-heel of a bang-up George Abbott musi-comedy, a profane hymn to the gaudy goddess of metropolitan night life...
...Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret did he tell his confidant Hermann Rauschning: "The parsons will be made to dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes. ... I can guarantee that they will replace the cross with our swastika...
...giving them their say in the paper's policy, and rises the status of editorial writers from stooges to thinking human begins. However, it is likely to throw the publishers into the ghastly predicament of profiting from a cause in which they don't believe; and rather than betray their principles, they continue to have their Virginio Gaydas root for the losing candidate. The public goodnaturedly ignores their cataclysmic appeals and sticks undisturbed to Superman and the candidate of its own choosing...
...themselves, until the last minute, so as not to see that the war we were fighting . . was their war. When the last minute came, with its crashing eloquence, they found themselves bound to consent to war, but they consented reluctantly and lay ready at the first occasion to betray it. For when they betrayed their Allies they gave themselves the excuse that they were betraying war primarily...