Word: opportunist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illman prevailed in his match by dint of his superior knowledge and opportunist tactics, and just edged the more muscular Loring after coming from behind, with all odds again him, at the end of four minutes of wrestling...
...Baker's running mate Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth steps to the fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour
...would have to get the people on his side. He knew that people loved to eat better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected like Hell...
This rationalization did much to put a better face on Joe Stalin's signing up with Hitler; foreign Communists and fellow travelers were given a rebuttal to fling at those who have maintained since August that Joe is just another opportunist dictator. If he was still against everybody's government, he might still be for the amelioration of the world's masses...
...diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and envy into the epithet, perfidious Albion. Even Heinrich Heine warned against "the treacherous and murderous intrigues of those Carthaginians of the North Sea." Writer-Diplomat Harold Nicolson in his Diplomacy, published last fortnight, says British diplomats seem "treacherous" because they are amateurish, opportunist, childishly simple, sentimental. Salient traits of British diplomacy to Author Nicolson are a "national distaste for logic and a national preference for dealing with situations after they have arisen rather than before they arise...