Word: turncoat
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...whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
...that De Gaulle and of the alternatives to him, a Frenchwoman in Vichy-france wrote last December. When she penned her letter to a friend in the U.S., turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan was still alive and in U.S. favor. Since his death, many things had changed for the better. But when her smuggled letter turned up in the U.S. last week, its words still rang...
...assassination of turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan, which gave the U.S. a chance to make a clean deal in North Africa, also gave French factionalists a chance to brew a political crisis. Two remarkably candid reports to the U.S. this week suggested that all was far from quiet beneath the top layer of General Henri Honore Giraud's government...
...small, stocky form of Admiral Darlan was lifted from the bloody floor. Outside his car still waited. He was carried into it, driven to a hospital. But it was too late. When he was taken from his car, Jean Francois Darlan, the turncoat collaborationist, was dead...
...give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes: the mealymouthed, blood-squeezing merchant, the vapid doll, the turncoat self-made man, and the soul-destroying shrew; that Dickens progressed from social to psychological, almost metaphysical analysis, and at his death was writing into the schizoid murderer Mr. Jasper (in Edwin Drood} not only the last and most symbolically charged of his Victorian hypocrites, but a sinister self-portrait...