Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that we, the youth, are a sorely tried, but also a steeled youth and as hard as iron, destined to fight on for the ideal of our indispensable Führer. When everybody deserts the Leader, he will be able to depend on his real youth. They will never betray...
Bill Edwards, who left Hayti, Mo. (pop. 2,628) to fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...
...German soldier who carries this safe conduct is using it as a sign of his genuine wish to go into captivity for the next ten years, to betray his fatherland, to return home a broken old man and very probably never to see his parents, wife and children again...
...slim, blue-eyed woman with high cheekbones that betray her Norwegian ancestry, she lives in a small apartment in Manhattan's musical Fifties. She is married to Edward Gates, a CBS production man, and is quite certain that marriage and a career mix perfectly. Says she, in her rather flat, methodical manner: "My husband has his own career and keeps himself very busy. Everyone needs someone he can trust, someone he can let his hair down to. Anyone who is self-sufficient must be a completely selfish person...
First before the Paris court came Georges Suarez, tough-minded former editor of the collaborationist Aujourd'hui. During the Nazi occupation, his editorials had exhorted Frenchmen to betray members of the Resistance. "Informing used to be a necessity," he said, "now it is an obligation." Suarez also liked to quote French Catholic Writer Joseph de Maistre: "The executioner is the keystone of modern society." Solemnly the Paris judge and his four assistants listened to a reading of Suarez' editorials. Then they passed sentence: for Editor Suarez, execution...