Word: turncoat
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...turncoat libertine, Charles Surface, D. T. Sullivan tends to fall into the trap of letting the stylized presentation of the play color his performance too much. Charles is a profligate but he would add better conrtast to the play if he were...
...Reds, French Existentialist Author Jean-Paul Sartre ground out a middling anti-Communist tract in the form of a play called Dirty Hands. Since then, Sartre has changed camps, is now a faithful member in good standing of a Communist braintrust known as the World Peace Council. Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater. He threatened to sue to keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation from the audience, which gave the cast...
When presenting the order to the council, Sullivan said, "I have been called a turncoat for introducing this order, but I believe in giving credit where credit is due." Sullivan, frequent attacker of University students in council meetings, did not say who had called him a turncoat...
...Turncoat. In Memphis. Wesley Green, 37, slightly wounded his old friend. Clarence Bentley. 29. in a duel with shotguns at 15 paces, explained to police: "All his life Clarence agreed that passenger cars could go faster than trucks. Then today he changed his mind...
Always a realist, he accepted the ultimatum of an obscure general delivered by a turncoat politician. He abdicated, and quit Egypt within the six hours specified. As he stood on the quay to embark, his huge, beefy frame encased in a white naval uniform, tears spilled down his cheeks. Twenty-one guns fired the royal salute, and the royal yacht Mahroussa (meaning Protected) put past the harbor's red and green entrance lights and steamed for Italy. It carried Farouk, his 19-year-old wife, their seven-month-old son, now King Fuad II, and 204 royal trunks...