Word: pretexting
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...King Dasa-ratha is an old lecher who ministers to his harem more assiduously than to his people, and totters on his throne from lack of sleep. Venal flunkeys catch the king's ear, and tell him that his son Rama plans to kill him. Under a pious pretext, the old man banishes Rama from his kingdom for 14 years. Into exile with Rama go his dutiful wife Sita and his loyal brother...
...Communists were looking for a pretext to break off the talks, Mendès had figured that U.S. "dissociation" was the one they were most likely to pick, since it would let them blame the U.S. for failure. Cheered, he went off to cut up the map with Pham Van Dong in the villa by Lac Leman...
When he took over in Paris in 1951, after a career as an anti-Communist trade union official and Resistance fighter, the Reds were overrunning the streets. At the slightest pretext they ran off rowdy demonstrations, built barricades, smashed windows and defaced autos-particularly those of Americans. The police usually stood helplessly by, lest by fighting they provoke even more deviltry...
...maneuver that would probably gather even more votes would be a procedural resolution, like one adopted last year, to postpone a head-on vote. Some countries which profess, out of fear, to favor Red China's admission could be expected to vote for such a resolution on the pretext that it is a "question of timing...
Doctrinaire to the end, he charged that the United Fruit Co. of Boston (which lost 400,000 acres of land to Arbenz' agrarian reform program) had "tried to destroy our country" under the pretext of attacking Communism. He referred sorrowfully to the "overwhelming and tremendous means at the command of Guatemala's enemies." and signed...