Word: pretext
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds approved the Cominform's avowed aims, the chief of which was to block U.S. aid to Europe. But they were afraid that if they joined, "the reactionary and pro-fascist forces now whipping up anti-Communist hysteria . . . would undoubtedly seize upon such action . . . as a pretext for new provocations and repressions against the Communists and all other sections of the American labor and progressive movement...
...would "substantially" increase strikes. Failure to comply with the "highly complex and burdensome" reporting of union finance and organization could be a pretext for denying a union the right to bargain peacefully, force a strike...
...with each case. A search for objects connected with a crime was legal in certain circumstances. In this case, the search was reasonable. It had to be intensive because of the small size of the objects searched for. The search was made "in good faith" and not as a pretext for looking for something else. The draft cards were seized legally...
Under the pretext of insufficient shipping space, our G.I.s are made to remain in India. Their presence gives latent support to Britain's most controversial colonial issue! On Nov. 23, an American in uniform was killed by rioting mobs in Calcutta. This tragedy is but a sample of the news that may be forthcoming from that unhappy country if we believe even a portion of the dire prediction of TIME'S London Bureau editors [TIME...
...brought other women into the Gulistan Palace. She consulted an American psychiatrist in Bagdad, and then came back to Teheran with a stern message for her husband. Things were better for a little while, but the young Shah soon relapsed. Last May Fawzia went home to Egypt on the pretext of ill health; last week she was still there. Court circles gossiped that an Egyptian divorce had been secretly granted. But the Iranian marriage was yet to be dissolved...