Word: opportunist
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...oppose this war on moral grounds, come out and say so now. January 15--and certainly February 15--will be too late. If you come out against war only after a war or a draft starts, you will merely be a hypocrite and an opportunist, as well as a coward...
...opportunist in this game," Caples said. "We sent too many balls across the net, had too many shots, too many balls in the goalkeeper's feet not to finish it off. It's not that the chances weren't there--they were...
...mailboxes of a few foreigners in Beijing last week read like one of the impassioned tracts circulated by Chinese students during their protests last spring. On closer scrutiny, however, the language was far harsher than anything the students ever wrote. Deng Xiaoping, the booklet charged, "is only an opportunist" whose "erroneous leadership" has betrayed "genuine Marxism-Leninism." Unlike the students, who castigated Deng for not carrying reforms far enough, the book accuses him of hurtling mindlessly down "the capitalist road." The solution: "Overthrow that handful of ambitious climbers and conspirators in the central party committee headed by Deng...
What happened to the promise of Marion Barry, the fire-snorting civil rights leader? Some say the promise never existed, that all along he was an opportunist obsessed with power. Others shrug and wonder if he simply traded in his civil rights merit badges for the good life. Perhaps the passion for power simply overwhelmed his compassion for the powerless. Yet he bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make...
...name Jesse Jackson is taboo with her. If anyone ever tries to tell you that all Black people like Jesse Jackson, just tell them to visit my home, Camp Conservative. In the same manner as her father, this woman believes that the Rev. Jackson is a "hypocrite" and an "opportunist...