Word: opportunistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fixer for Chairman Mao, Chou is China's chief executive officer. Though his influence is powerful, he is "a builder, not a poet," as Journalist Edgar Snow says. Chou is usually described as a "moderate" or a "pragmatist." But he is also, in all senses of the word, an opportunist. To some of those who knew the patrician Premier when he was starring in student theatricals (once in a female part) in the Teens, he is a skillful dissembler, not to be trusted in any circumstances. But most Westerners who have met Chou would agree with Henry Kissinger, who said...
...reverses this decision and apologizes for having made it." Another Californian, former Marine Captain George Brokate, publicly threw into a trash can a plaque of appreciation he had received from Nixon for donating $13,000 to his successful presidential campaign. He denounced Nixon as "just another tricky weather vane opportunist politician...
Connally is an opportunist, and in Texas politics an opportunist invariably chooses the rough Democratic Party as the most convenient vehicle to political power. But Connally is not a man for labels, and party loyalty to him is not the irrefutable ideal expounded by his close friend and longtime mentor. Lyndon Johnson. His dedication to the Democratic Party is not, as Sam Rayburn once characterized his own loyalty. "without prefix, without suffix and without apology." Connally is one to seize on the most advantageous combination of power and people, and in this regard the Vice-presidency under a Republican President...
...only half-formed. He may be too honest and too open. His singular intensity seems sometimes to sweep him beyond the fine limits of good judgment. He ends up beyond any serious constituency, too strident on the war, too quick to embrace any dissenter, suspected finally of being an opportunist, without the relief of generating excitement...
...person, Sloan speaks quietly and intelligently of his war experiences, vainly attempting to sort them into some logical philosophical system. He realizes, however, that this war bows to no systemization. An opportunist, Sloan decided to profit as much as possible from Vietnam and soaked the corruption, bureaucratic idiocy, and brutality for whatever he could gain...