Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...betray a pitiful lack of experience when you tag as sugary and overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...
...province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant prime minister who will defend our rights than a French-speaking Roman Catholic who will betray...
...more than halfway abstract, showed things like grasshoppers hopping into scarlet immensities and bushes brandishing their thorns at green skies. The portrait was equally harsh. Posed against a livid yellow background, Maugham sat with folded arms beneath a fringe of tropical palms. His jut-jawed old face seemed to betray a struggle between pain and hauteur...
...chamber is also equipped with a voice recorder so sensitive that it can pick up even the softest and most confidential whisper, and betray it to the concealed investigators...
...cannot believe, because you cannot understand, what it is to live under the Russians," she explained. "At first, you don't see anything evil. The pressure comes slowly, incalculably-until suddenly you know you must die or flee or betray." Last night Frau K. sneaked back to her town with little hope. She and the doctor can have no promise of being flown to the West...