Word: opportunistic
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...other Chinese generals bickered about demobilizing their huge idle armies. Opportunist Feng saw a chance to carve out a little State of his own. Last fortnight he sent his well-paid, well-drilled troops against the walls of Dolonor in southeast Chahar, held by Manchukuan irregulars and two brigades of Japanese regulars. Four times they were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...
Shoehorned humbly into a group of presumably sane people-his host, a lawyer, two girl friends, a housekeeper, a butler, a detective and the host's sister- Parker progressively webs them all in their own words and impales them on insane lip-logic. An opportunist juggling ideals, he shifts positions faster than the others, stares long & unfazed into their faces, razzle-dazzles them with winning sophistries until he has confused, ingratiated, amazed, enraged, baffled and terrified them...
...campaign promises can be taken to have any save an opportunist meaning, the Democratic victory of November 8 should presage a downward revision of tariff rates. With such a possibility in mind, Dr. Benjamin Anderson has stated in the latest issue of the Chase Economic Bulletin that "the great international conference for the reduction of tariffs which the new administration is expected to call is going to work a radical change in this whole American picture, and the whole world picture." An equitable balance of trade has always been the basis of satisfactory commercial relations, and, according to Dr. Anderson...
...Hindenburg. The old Field Marshal whose mind is a little slow at following the niceties of political intrigue put his rheumatic foot down at handing the Chancellorship to the man who had opposed him for the presidency, the man whom he secretly considers a ne'er-do-well opportunist...