Word: opportunistic
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...Opportunist. In Knoxville,Tenn., Judge Charles G. Kelly dismissed the charge of possessing liquor against Ada Ready when she explained that she never possessed liquor, just drank it as soon...
...back, but for the first time in his long career, as a democratically chosen, constitutional President. Perhaps the supple old opportunist could change enough to fit the new pattern. Brazilians have always said that Getulio could change his socks without taking off his shoes...
...asserts that Koreans have already proved they want and can run a democracy. "In 1948 we elected a parliament, which chose Synghman Rhee, president. He has proven a wiser choice than the official U. S. military government authorities who were picked to succeed him. The American choice was an opportunist, who welcomed the Communist army when they entered Seoul. Our democratic government was gaining strength, last spring it succeeded in balancing the budget and Curbed the inflation felt by the Japanese...
Many of FDJ members are rowdy, opportunist youths, like Hans Gossen, FDJ leader in Saxony. As a Hitler Youth Bannführer, he had tasted power young. As a P.W. of the Russians, he did a quick about-face. In his "confession," he declared that his parents had forced him into Naziism, but that in Russia his eyes had been opened. Said he: "I want to devote myself to progress. Despite my belated awakening, I beg that I may be accepted." His wish was fulfilled...
Pale, plain, 30-year-old Ralph Kastner did not have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...