Word: pretexting
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Goulart called the whole blowup a "campaign which certain interests are carrying out against the government under the pretext of disclosing scandals in companies that belong to the people's patrimony. What they want is to destroy Petrobras. I believe in the defense of Petrobras." As part of that defense, he fired the company's three directors and its crusading President Silva. To replace Silva, Goulart chose Marshal Osvino Alves, 66, an old friend and former chief of Brazil's first army -who took over as the eighth president of Petrobras in ten years...
...concern; for example, funk, "a state of panic," "first listed as Oxford slang." The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is uncertain. See BLUE, they suggest. But before we do, notice a term in which "funk" is used in combination: Funkhole, military slang, "a trench dug-out; employment used as a pretext for evading military service." Here we have another connection which the Times surely, must have had in mind...
...amnesty. In a bone-chilling drizzle before the national capitol building, 15,000 shivering spectators watched former military Strongman General Park Chung Hee, 46, take the oath of office as South Korea's fifth civilian President. Promising never "to permit the resurgence of dictatorship under any disguise or pretext," Park said: "The bright morning of the new republic has dawned. Let us put depression, melancholy, confusion and pessimism behind us and create a new history of optimism and determination...
...authoritative rule of faith and practice. The corporeal Resurrection and the Virgin Birth are firm parts of conservative doctrine." In theology, according to Dr. Roger Nicole of Massachusetts' Gordon Divinity School, the new conservatism does not favor "the evasion of the manifest meaning of the creed on the pretext of a nonliberal interpretation. You either subscribe to the creed...
...fire on Feb. 27, 1933. The Nazis claimed the fire was kindled by Communists as the signal for a Red uprising, and a confused Dutch boy named Marinus Van der Lubbe was be headed for his alleged part in the crime. Since the Reichstag fire gave Hitler a pretext to gain complete control of Germany, most historians have concluded that the fire was set by the Nazis themselves, possibly even by Hermann Göring in person...