Word: pretext
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxiety was evident that the Germans, on the pretext that a national revolt had started, might order a slaughter in an attempt to end all resistance and obtain the workers promise by Pierre Laval, Vichy dictator...
...hunger strike has positively become a plague. On the slightest pretext some people want to resort to a hunger strike. It is well, therefore, that the Working Committee [of the Congress party] has condemned the practice in unequivocal terms, so far at least as a hunger strike for a discharge from imprisonment is concerned...
...this New Year's Day he was trying, as he did when Naziism was only a party, to win his people over to the Nazi creed: >"Russia . . . prepared her world struggle in the name of socialist states, with the support of capitalist countries, against . . . socialist Germany. >"Whatever pretext our enemies used . . . the fundamental cause was always the same: hatred against a strong German Reich . . . and their universal capitalist interests in war as such. ... All their statesmen are at the same time holders of shares of the armament industries. . . . The blood of their paid mercenaries, of even their own soldiers...
...their pockets this week U.S. soldiers carried written instructions on how to behave in Morocco, where women must never be spoken to, no matter how courteously, no matter what the pretext. Said the orders: "Regarding Moslem women, you must put aside all your own preconceived notions and ideas. You must remember, your conduct in this matter may decide the fate of the campaign." U.S. boys from Pleasant Valley, Spencerville and The Bronx were discovering that soldiering had a lot of complications to it that no one had ever told them about at home...
...reared blunt, thundering, red-faced Andrew Jackson Higgins, boss and promoter of the whole show: "gross stupidity . . . a pretext . . . worse for the State than if the river flooded New Orleans." Sympathetic Louisiana Representatives started an investigation. Last week the investigating committee completed publication of its hearings, now anyone could decide for himself why the Higgins yard was closed...