Word: pretexting
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...Jaeger's sincere fear of offending them was typical of his deep interest in people and personal relationships. Busy as he is, and important as he is, Jaeger will always stop work in Widener 776 to talk for hours--literally hours--with any student who comes in on any pretext whatsoever. Unlike many insignificant section men, he always knows the names, the abilities, and the problems of every student in one of his courses. His international fame constantly brings scholars from all over the world to his office, and there is no secretary there to give them the brush...
...News won three first prizes for editorials from the North Carolina Press Association. Publisher Robinson rattled around Charlotte in his battered old Dodge to speak to citizens' groups, hustled for ads Unce on a visit to Manhattan, he phoned Colgate-Palmolive Co. Chairman E. H Little on the pretext that he wanted to pay hls respects "to the most prominent North Carolinian in New York " Little was so pleased that he sent his car around tor Robinson, who ended up with an ad contract from the soap company In 8½ years, the News's circulation has risen...
...Mohammed ben Youssef as head of some 9,000,000 Moroccan Moslems. On Aug. 20, 1953, the French bundled Ben Youssef aboard a DC-3 and exiled him, ostensibly to "save" him from his own people, actually because he supported their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan, became in exile a martyr...
...Before the ugly church-burnings. Perón would probably have won his point; now he wants to avoid a test of strength. His solution apparently is to seek a concordat, i.e., a diplomatic agreement with the Vatican regulating church-state relations. Even negotiating for a concordat might be pretext enough to postpone the election, which was to have taken place by November...
...Sitwell, 68, and Cinemactress Marilyn (The Seven Year Itch) Monroe, 29, met in Hollywood last year, Dame Edith's life has not been the same. Intrigued by the incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said to her . . . that I hoped if she came to London she would . . . have...