Word: sellout
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...Vietnam (however perverse and misguided those purposes may have been) was abhorrent to him. And then, of course, there were those who had found U. S. intervention in Vietnam to be essentially worthwhile; to such men, the idea of the decent interval must have seemed an evil and a sellout...
...released, Time magazine published an article. "Posthumous Pillory," a preview of The King God Didn't Save, in an "Opinion" section of its August 17th issue. The lead paragraph of the piece concluded, "Now a black writer has added yet another-and unlikely-epithet to those (commie, liar, ad sellout) already fastened to the assassinated leader. . . Williams calls King a failure...
MALAYSIA, another veteran of a Peking-backed insurgency, has made an even more startling turnabout. Last month Kuala Lumpur accepted its first Chinese Red Cross flood aid; last week it rolled out the red carpet for a sellout tour by the popular Communist Chinese Silver Star Cultural Troupe. With Rumania and other third-party countries acting as the middlemen, Malaysia's pragmatic new Premier Tun Abdul Razak has begun indirect negotiations with China, offering to open trade and diplomatic relations in return for Peking's promise not to support Malaysia's holdout guerrillas. He has already faced...
...think the characteristic of this regime, if I may say so, in terms of economic policy, is the massive sellout of Greek resources to foreign capital, and especially to Greek-American capital. You can, in fact, ask yourself sometimes about a dictatorship-what particular class or social group does it represent, both politically and socially. You ask this about a Latin American dictatorship, you can ask it about an African dictatorship, an Asian dictatorship, a European dictatorship. Well I've asked this question of myself very honestly, and I can say that it really reflects, it represents, theoretically, very little...
...foreign capital, especially American, but more especially Greek-American capital. In fact, Karamanlis, in an unusual moment of brilliance, called this dictatorship a Greek-American dictatorship. And I think that this really is the better reason, and that this is really that kind of operation, it's literally a sellout. And I prefer to think of it this...