Word: opportunistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taking the profit out of war" is a popular cause and the President would be well justified as a political opportunist to take it away from the Republican Senators who are running the current investigation...
...other movie, which presents Joan Blondell as virtually a loose woman, with an equally loose companion is supposed to be fast moving. It depicts the life of two opportunist gold diggers with hearts of "gold," a millionaire playboy, a divorce, and Paris. They all do pretty well...
...some Republicans, however, Senator Vandenberg appeared more of an opportunist than a liberal. For national party leadership this group suggested Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon who was not up for re-election this year, who took no part in the campaign. No standpatter, Senator McNary has placed himself adroitly half way between the Republican archconservatives and the Republican insurgents. Quick to seize last week's hint he proclaimed: "The Republican Party must have a program and it must be a forward-looking one. ... In my opinion it will keep the faith...
...credit currency outstanding and with it raise the price level. On the surface, to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist whose disturbing though well meant efforts are proving more a hindrance than a help to recovery...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...