Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every time you turned around, some liberal bird would get out and make a speech or write a book about [My Lai]. This decision will have impact on all young men who will serve their country. We need soldiers such as Sgt. Mitchell," Brown concluded. "Let's not betray...
Nevertheless, A Guest of Honour is an unusually honest and serious book. In his own matter-of-fact way, Bray meets the dilemma of whether to be a lip servant or a participant in a manner that does not betray himself or those he cares for. He is an old-fashioned man of private conscience and good will who is doomed in a world of arrogant passions and ruthless compromise. Miss Gordimer sympathetically brackets him between two quotations. The first is from the genteel self-exile Ivan Turgenev: "An honourable man will end by not knowing where to live...
...America, Alonso would appear to be letting Muldoon speak for him when he sputters: "Even if New England were to contribute more transcendentalists now, they too would be exactly like the produce from the rest of the nation: somehow Californian, hedonistic Pollyannas who betray in their every drug-scented utterance their own fundamentally middleclass, consumer's approach to the Great Questions...
INFLUENCED by Fidel Castro's successful revolution, Che Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...George Jackson, called "The Soledad Brothers." Attorneys for The Soledad Brothers say these inmates were charged not because of any evidence connecting them with the beating, but because they had previously been identified by the prison authorities as black militants, men who refuse to bend, to become docile, to betray other inmates, to be subservient, to be rehabilitated...