Word: opportunistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scratch of a pen that grated Stalin could prove mortal to its author, and Ilya Ehrenburg set out to safeguard himself from an early, flowered grave. Survive he did, earning the epithet of panderer and opportunist from his detractors. Ehrenburg survived not only the Revolution (he published his first books of poems while the Czar was still on his throne) but all the turns and terrors of successive Soviet regimes...
...Forlorn Servicemen. Katz is a remarkable mixture of opportunist and traditionalist. Born in Odessa of Russian-Jewish parents, he came to the U.S. as an infant, at the age of 14 was given a tiny printing press by his father. He used it to print letterheads and menus, and to turn out a magazine called Boy's Ideal, which eventually gained a circulation of 2,500 at 250 per annual subscription. He took his earnings and went to the University of Pittsburgh, but dropped out during...
...been a good week for Romney, either. Earlier, he futilely tried to explain away his recent description of Percy as an "opportunist" (what he meant, said Romney, was that Percy "had a good sense of timing"). Next, Barry Goldwater did nothing to help him by declaring that the Governor just might make an acceptable candidate-"if he comes back to the Republican Party." And the morning after his disappointing dinner performance, Romney even overslept until the slugabed hour-for him-of 6:30, was so rattled that he arrived at a G.O.P. breakfast in mismatched pants and coat...
...fears that the Sunnite majority-a more orthodox sect-might rebel if he became too publicly outspoken. Actually, he need not say much: the statements of his peers are sufficiently intemperate to embrace his views. Says Premier Zayyen in tones ominously Pekingese: "We are crushing all parasite and opportunist elements that stand between the Arab revolution and the Arab masses...
Whatever else he was, Pancho Villa was a born leader. In the revolution of 1910, the black-tempered peasant led the first uprising against President Porfirio Díaz, later joined that other hard-riding bandido, Emiliano Zapata, against the government of the opportunist Venustiano Carranza. Along the way, Villa's cavalry of bearded, wild-eyed "Dorados" (Golden Ones) shot up and looted villages, left the bodies of priests strung on barbed wire; they later defied the U.S. by killing 19 in a raid on a New Mexico border town, eluding a punitive force led by General John...