Word: opportunistic
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...With the Dhoti. For all his playboy manner, however, Suhrawardy is a deliberate contender for power. His opponents call him "a complete opportunist"; Suhrawardy softens that to read "complete politician." The son of a rich Calcutta mill owner, he entered politics soon after his graduation from Oxford, was a sufficiently good administrator to become Chief Minister of Bengal, one of the biggest jobs in British India. With India's independence and its partition into Hindu and Moslem nations. Moslem Suhrawardy, instead of going to Moslem Pakistan, toured Bengal with Mahatma Gandhi and tried...
...have supported him in his quest for the presidency. Many feel that he has shamefully neglected his Senate duties to engage in that quest (in 16 years in the House and Senate, he authored not a single major piece of legislation). Others consider him the rankest sort of opportunist, who will do anything to grab a headline...
...visit to the Kremlin, the new line was laid down for this week's congress in Le Havre: the French Communist Party was going to go right on being tough. "A few isolated voices in our own ranks," thundered Maurice Thorez, "have echoed enemy noises. Some have taken opportunist positions, become liquidators, and even repeated the worst lies of our adversaries." Stalin should not be castigated too severely, explained L'Humanité Boss Etienne Fajon, one of the Moscow pilgrims, for he had only "used unworthy methods for a just and victorious struggle...
...time he is set to mastermind the election for governor of a drunken windbag named John Cromwell, Freesmith has developed into a full clinical picture of an icy-hearted opportunist in action. He figures that fear plus hate equals power. By manipulating the fear of poverty of California's "senior citizens" and exploiting general hatred of Communism, he hopes to become the real governor of California. In a not quite credible solution, his pal Hank removes the hard hand of Mike Freesmith from the public weal...
...final analysis, practically everyone except New York headline writers and opportunist Father Halton regretted that the initial invitation was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society, which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates. Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...