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Word: recreant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What he had written was in keeping with the general's style and past performance: "In this hour of momentous import, national and international, temporal and spiritual ... I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Announcement from Tokyo | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 83-year-old head of the Carnegie Institute, who offered a million dollars last year for the abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe) had a Cellophane window put in her glove so as not to hide her diamond wrist watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ladies & Ancients | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...them. He is a lyric poet, and writes with an exquisite hand-a great accomplishment in classical China. Since he is the only really big Chinese to favor their cause, the Japanese prize him like some fragile T'ang Dynasty vase. Despite his record as a shifty recreant, despite the fact that Chinese honor him only in hatred, Wang is a brilliant mystic, not to be lightly dismissed. His establishment as Japan's super-puppet is therefore a major event in the China war. Japan hopes he will be able to bring about peace, but his beginnings last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Tale of a Turncoat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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