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Word: turncoats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, turncoat Socialist who last year engineered his party's merger with the Communists, hastily put in his two zlotys' worth. He announced that Vice Minister of Agriculture Stanislaw Kowalewski had been fired as a "hypocrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Blind | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Turncoat. In Snow Hill, N.C., Virginia police who had searched more than two years for Escaped Convict Tommy Hill finally found him working as a guard at a North Carolina state prison camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...credited with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Opera Government | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Richberg, a graduate of the Law School, is co-author of the Norris LaGuardia Act, the NIRA, aur the Burton, Ball-Hatch bill on labor relations. Because of his work on the last, he has been called a "turncoat" by pro-labor followers who recall his work on the Norris LaGuardia and the National Industrial Recovery Acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Law Forum in Sanders Tonight Will Discuss Treatment of Strikes | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...pretend to be friends of our country. Many of them are more dangerous than out-and-out enemies. Recently it has become the fashion among certain émigrés, not only the Left but among actual monarchists, to lick our boots. Don't trust them. Once a turncoat, always a turncoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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