Word: opportunistic
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Substitute. The Ramirez Government will replace Señor Espil with Adrian Escobar, a stranger to the U.S., but well-known as an opportunist. Once considered pro-Franco, Escobar is at least certain to be safely pro-Ramirez...
...Wehrmacht. They might indicate the Red Army's strength, its future victories, even Stalin's political demands. Yet, to get to the answers, one must cut through many layers of claims and counterclaims, of secrecy and propaganda. Hitler himself hinders clear answers, for he is an opportunist, a gambler, an intuitive strategist who does not plan far ahead...
...Opportunist. In Cambridge, Mass., a pretty blonde walked into a shorthanded restaurant at rush hour, asked for a job, got an immediate trial as cashier, made an immediate disappearance with...
...last definite vestige of a foreign policy which this nation has exhibited was the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trine. Since then, to the day of Pearl Harbor, our foreign policy has been makeshift . . . and opportunist. It has been hoping for the best while taking no measures to prepare for the worst. From the Presidency of Mr. Monroe until this day the Monroe Doctrine has been accepted by Great Britain. . . . Great Britain was our unacknowledged ally in the preservation of the two Americas from foreign aggression...
...country seemed destined to become a battlefield. To keep their hold and ensure a pro-Nazi regime, the Germans might send in an army of occupation; the Allies might counter with an invasion of the Balkans; watchful opportunist Turkey might now enter the war on the Allied side. Cabled New York Timesman Ray Brock through the Turkish censorship: "The time might come when the Turks would consider it necessary to march into the Balkans in order to protect Turkey's frontiers and security...