Word: traitorousness
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Hewed to Taste. Sparks's ambitions make him a traitor to the serious seekers of the ethnic. But Sparks makes no apologies. "I can sing just as ethnically as they can," he says, "and so can all of us. But we hew to the public taste because the public pays our salaries...
Answering a question from the audience, Nizer, one of the most successful trial lawyers in the United States, said he could not represent or "argue with passion or sincerity for a man if I despise him--if he is a Nazi or traitor or subversive...
...master of Iraq, Kassem was in no mood to share the prize with Aref's other hero, Egypt's Nasser. Ordered into exile as Ambassador to West Germany, Aref pulled a gun in Kassem's presence but was disarmed and finally condemned to death as a traitor. Kassem changed the sentence to life imprisonment and in 1961 sentimentally and imprudently set Aref free...
...1930s and '40s, suave, Russian-born Morros was contacted in 1943 by the Soviets, who used his father as a hostage; he pretended to turn Communist, for years endured snubs and abuse from his fellow citizens while quietly collecting information for the FBI that helped crack Convicted Traitor Jack Soble's atom spy ring. Said Morros after it was all over: "I had to do more realistic acting than any of the players I ever directed in Hollywood...
...state, the fate of the Republic, the future of France." The most damaging blow to old-line parties was struck by one of their most respected leaders. Socialist Mollet. An implacable antiCommunist, he is one of the chief targets of France's Reds, who call him a "social traitor" and "America's man." But with that fatal French excess of cleverness. Mollet declared that Socialists losing in the first round should support Communist candidates rather than Gaullists, arguing that the ten or twelve additional Communist Deputies who might thus get elected would be less of a threat...