Word: betrays
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...Russian soldiers who had been separated from their outfits in the confusion as the Germans advanced. Zotov is drawn to the man. He talks to him about his own life in Moscow, about the straggler's wife and children. Then, on the slightest possible evidence, he has to betray his new friend as a suspect spy. Vaguely, but with deep melancholy, Zotov begins to feel a sense of personal guilt, to comprehend the impossible strain that the Soviet regime has placed upon all human relationships...
...York than one reporter asked if she were "power-hungry," as her father, Tran Van Chuong, recently resigned as Saigon's ambassador to Washington, had claimed. "If I am," she replied in her rapid-fire but often imprecise English, "I would not indulge in such quixotism. I would betray Viet Nam instead of trying to help it. I am having the behavior of a Don Quixote, really." She wanted only "to try to understand why we can't get along better," she said. "People seem to hate my country, to dislike even myself. I come here just...
...when she allegedly called youthful U.S. military advisers in South Viet Nam "soldiers of fortune, adventurers, and saboteurs." What she had really said, she maintained, was that a country like the U.S., "with over 100 million inhabitants, had among its lower officials some adventurers who did not hesitate to betray the official policy of their government...
...matter that has preoccupied him for the past decade. "With a Madonna, everybody understands what you're saying." he thought. Critics dismissed these works as oldfashioned, although there is little piety to his garishly colored, grotesque Biblical scenes. Their raw outlines, squeezed from tubes, and their hacked surfaces betray the same tortured view of man as his early drawings...
...diplomacy, money, and arms that have kept Diem in power and so far prevented the emergence of an alternative capable of turning the tide against the Communists. To call it quits now before democratic forces in South Vietnam have had a chance to rally and fight would be to betray them once more, and this time irretrievably. The South Vietnamese people would be left defenseless, without any prospect for self-determination--unless we believe as the letter implies that, unlike Diem, the Communists will 'allow normal democratic procedures for political opposition and an orderly change of government...