Word: pretexting
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...government decree, perpetrated on the shabby pretext that production and efficiency must be improved, laid down new early hours for nearly every phase of Spanish life. Beginning June 1, shops must close at 7 p.m., groceries by 8. Theaters and cinemas will let out at 11:30 p.m.-just when most patrons in late-running Spain are puffing down the aisle to their seats. And, as if no indignity is too much for the burdened Spaniard to bear, the government has ordered restaurants and cafes to pull down their iron shutters at the afternoonish hour of midnight. Wondered an incredulous...
...much more challenging experience for both patient and volunteer can come through serious conversations. This, of course, raises many new problems--differences in age, sex, or social background may make it impossible to get a conversation started, and the volunteer usually must find a pretext for talking with a patient who is suspicious of his motives and sees little need to converse...
Equal Treatment. There was sufficient pretext to demand Colmer's ouster: he had given his lukewarm support to the anti-Kennedy electors in Mississippi. Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons. In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive...
...accuse the U.S. Government of plotting against him. His next move amounted to public admission that with his support on the right vanishing, he had become a virtual prisoner of the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas-who happen to be headed by his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong. Under pretext of negotiations with Souvanna, the Pathet Lao have ringed his jittery capital of Vientiane with 2,000 to 4,000 men, and not only civilians but Souvanna's soldiers as well must now get passes from the Pathet Lao to clear the Communist check points on all roads leading...
...stepped from the Soviet jetliner at Vnukovo, Chairman Liu raised his arms in salute to Chairman Khrushchev. But on the eve of Liu's departure, Peking had seized on the pretext of the publication of a fourth volume of Mao Tse-tung's selected works to print an "introduction"' by General Fu Chung, in which the general pointedly quoted old Mao dicta on war and peace and, inferentially, challenged Khrushchev's favorite doctrine of peaceful coexistence. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," quoted Fu. "Politics is war that sheds no blood while...