Word: turncoat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turncoat. In Noblestown, Pa., Philip Mager, suspected of stealing $75 from a post office, was discovered in the posse that was hunting...
...charting of the ebb and flow of war's malignant tides, the movie ruthlessly sends its heroine into action for both sides; yet she proves to be neither turncoat nor indecisive fool nor coward. Dr. Helga Reinbeck (played with passionate intensity by Europe's fast-rising Maria Schell) is serving as head nurse in a German field hospital. By a ruse, a band of partisans whose own doctor is severely wounded succeeds in kidnaping her. After the partisans' doctor dies in her care, they offer her a grim choice: help us or follow him. The decision tears...
...ideas of a Jewish fellow student, now a Red officer. Sophie's new and growing love for Erick is rejected and she crosses class, family and historical lines to go over to the Reds. Presently, Conrad is killed; his sister is captured and sentenced to death as a turncoat. In a scene of cutting irony the White soldier, who usually performs the executions with his pistol, comes to Erick and reports: "She orders . . . that is, Miss Sophie asks . . She wants it to be you." Erick obliges. His first shot blows half her face away. "On the second shot everything...
...gawkers lolling in the galleries, Capehart cited a reported statement by Morse that Dwight Eisenhower and skidded Teamsters Union Boss Dave Beck are "the same kind of immoralists"-Beck for pickpocketing his union members, Ike for pickpocketing U.S. taxpayers. A shouting duel ensued. Declaring ex-Republican Morse a turncoat, Capehart cried that any such man is "intellectually dishonest and immoral." In rebuttal, Morse shouted that portly Homer Capehart is "a tub of rancid ignorance." Embarrassed by the rule-breaking spat in public, other Senators also joined in the shouting as peacemakers. Finally Wayne Morse proposed that the most intemperate salvo...
Lady Megan ("Megan Turncoat," as some of her detractors called her) was standing against and not with her father's old party...