Word: betrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even that, if truth be known. For the little colored lights will not even be lit for another four weeks. Once again, the penny-wise mentality of these short-sighted planners threatens to betray our spiritual values. It is too late to play hide-and-seek with our chances for salvation...
...fourth floor. French police mounted quickly to Kravchenko's room and found on the floor the note he had left behind him. It read: "On this voyage I have discovered the meaning of the word liberty. I can no longer be a Communist. But neither can I betray my country. I cannot bring myself to ask asylum of foreigners. Death is the only...
...recognition, said Dillon. "Unfortunately, the delegate of Cuba has tried to give the implication that the U.S. somehow recognizes the permanence of the present regime in Cuba. This we do not do and never will do, because to do so would be to betray the thousands of patriotic Cubans who are still waiting and struggling for the freedom of their country. We await the day when the people of Cuba have once more regained their freedom...
Divided Loyalties. The moral of the episode-that it is more honorable to betray one's party than one's fellow man-underlies The Fox and the Camellias, though Silone gives it a new twist. The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone...
...which I had access which was not passed on to my Soviet contact." Though Blake did not deal with atomic or scientific matters, explained Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, "he had access to information of the very greatest importance." Fact was, Blake was in a position to betray British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. Lord Parker took only 53 minutes to reach his decision. Blake's disloyalty, he commented, "rendered much of this country's efforts completely useless." He then sentenced him to 42 years in prison, the heaviest term handed out by any British court...