Word: opportunist
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...facts of Nixon's failure point to what I thought an obvious conclusion: he simply wasn't good enough for high American politics. One could stop short of this judgment and damn him as an opportunist, I noted; or one could deny the judgment, as Mr. Von Salzen does, and speak vaguely of Nixon's having done "a few things right," and being "deserving of appreciation." Both views are superficial, I think...
...only a matter of time before the unemployed Deputies were clamoring to get back in. Fortnight ago, President Nazem El-Koudsi and veteran politician Khaled El-Azm, a nimble opportunist who has served as Premier four times since 1941, boldly called the dissolved Parliament back into session...
...many Ghanaians, the accusations had a hollow ring. Foreign Minister Adjei, 47, has been a staunch supporter of Nkrumah for years and is a leader of the moderate fringe, which occasionally has urged sense on Ghana's erratic leader. By contrast, Adamafio, 40, is a ruthless opportunist who clawed his way to the top on the strength of his anti-West, pro-Communist inclinations. His main public activity was to dream up new, adulatory names for Nkrumah; but for weeks, rumors of his plans to overthrow the Redeemer had swirled through Accra...
...quite another Mr. K. Following the rules by which these games are played, it was possible to learn what the Chinese meant by substituting Khrushchev's name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much in evidence. Diplomatically, Russia is actively...
...landlords' hired gunmen, and brought Brazilian infantry troops double-timing to the Northeast in regimental strength. What holds back the revolution is lack of arms and the Communists' own blunders. As in Castro's Cuba, the old-line party members regard Juliāo as "an opportunist" and seek to undercut his popularity with the peasants...