Word: opportunisme
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Russia's interest in the Dardanelles and the Middle East is not one of adventurous postwar opportunism. It antedates the Communist Revolution, and will not be abated (though it may be hushed) by Western "firmness and patience." To gain the Dardanelles and the Middle East, Russia was actually willing...
Last week, 63-year-old Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you) was mad again. What irked him this time was the death of the Progressive Party (TIME, March 25). A faithful disciple of old "Fighting Bob" La Follette, he had been convention chairman at the party's birth at Fond...
Next day, a front-page editorial in Berlin's Communist Deutsche Volkszeitung warmly spoke up for those who had joined the Nazi Party merely out of opportunism.
But by last week the anti-Warren undertone had reached the proportions of a shout. One Earl Lee Kelly, a stem-winding, dyed-in-the-wool Republican, let fly with a speech which accused Warren of "vacillation . . . opportunism . . . political expediency" and lack of "courage and character." He mailed out 50...
There have been many historic examples of "thrust-upon" greatness resulting in surprising current adulation and consequent "achievement" (in the sense of quantity, not quality, of action) which later mature evaluation does not substantiate. Three of our Presidents have been illustrious examples of such magnificent opportunism. They are Jefferson, Jackson...