Word: opportunist
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...wealthy owner of a chain of restaurants, once a saloonkeeper, who called one of Fast's friends, a conservative Communist, "Traitor! Opportunist! Renegade...
Hourani, a deft opportunist who combines considerable organizational ability with an intuitive sense of knowing just when to switch his ideologies. "Hourani," a Damascene political expert once remarked, "has changed camels so many times that his backside has as many calluses as his conscience...
...government press told it, the Nasser men were guided by simple principles. All "imperialist, reactionary and opportunist elements" were eliminated. Amateurs who entered only for publicity were not tolerated. Some were eliminated for their own good, such as one fellah who sold his water buffalo and two-thirds of an acre of land to run for Parliament; the council rejected him in a kindly way on the grounds that he should not waste his substance in a candidacy which they considered hopeless. When other grounds failed, candidates were stricken off "for considerations of the National Union or certain policies"-that...
Kasper will probably never recover the prestige he lost among segregationists through his revelations. He is not powerless, however, and is a sufficiently adept opportunist to make a comeback of sorts. If the segregationist tack falls through, Kasper has anti-Semitism, an old stand-by of his, to work from. Unlike his mentor, Ezra Pound, the insane poet who is now confined in a mental hospital, Kasper is not deranged...
South African John Chalsty made a fine opportunist try five minutes later (16-0) but sloppy Crimson play enabled M.I.T. to score its only points exactly the same way, immediately after the ball was put back into play...