Word: pretext
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some feared that the ronin - unemployed feudal warriors, many of whom turned brigand on the pretext of purifying the nation - would roam Japan again. Demobilization plus unemployment might bring thousands of modern ronin...
...Under the pretext that in wartime anyone who did not approve of the Government was a traitor to his country, the Government embarked on a campaign of intimidation ... in the vain hope that news of what was going on could be kept from the outside world...
...after much wrangling, the applicant withdrew his application; one of the new union members was standing firm on the strength of a 17-year tenure, one temporary employe was about to be dismissed, and the fourth man, who had been at Normandy 14 years, was facing dismissal on the pretext that he too was a "temporary" employe...
Would Argentina declare an eleventh-hour war on the Reich? Argentina's Acting Foreign Minister, small, wiry Cesar Ameghino, last week announced that a "state of tension" existed between Germany and Argentina. Using the pretext that the Nazis were preventing repatriation of seven Argentine diplomats caught in Europe, Señor Ameghino sent Germany a hot note of protest. He warned the Nazis that next time "the Argentine Government would consider such action as an act of hostility...
...Orleans, blaring Negro bands were carted through the streets on the slightest pretext; the trombonist sat well back, over the parade wagon tailgate, where he had elbow room to maneuver his slide...