Word: opportunist
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...steadfastly pursued, it is bound to reach a successful conclusion." Major Angas admits that "to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist. . . ." But he believes there is an underlying theme which is "clear, consistent and fundamentally sound." That theme, says Major Angas. is monetary?simply "Reflate, then stabilize...
...They are liberal without being icy. They are independent without deserting Christianity. They are socially-minded without becoming faddists. . . . They are experimental and opportunist without scattering and fighting the air. They are progressive without becoming latitudinarian. . . . Instead of so much emphasis on soul saving, the church must direct its attention to life saving . . . must become a clubhouse, a community house, a place of refuge for all lonely and perplexed, instead of a guardhouse and a place of penitence and tears...
...more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde+2d them. This dumping of the more noisesome rabbit warrens has hardly scratched the surface, and has done little save excite the traditional opportunist shouts about private rights and "American ideals...
...made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft is "Don't be an airedale...
...epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still...