Word: pretexting
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...advance) of the contention that a desire "in conscience" not to name ones friends might "explain" a claim of the privilege. It states (p. 600) that "Every good citizen is bound to aid in the enforcement of the law, and has no right to permit himself, under the pretext of sheltering his own good name to be the tool of others, who are desirous of seeking shelter behind his privilege...
...official warning, posted throughout most of the houses, advised students to keep an eye out for a sharp-featured stranger who might enter their rooms on "one pretext or another" in the early morning hours...
...returns to his home town for a week or so to help the old folks get the house repaired. Novelist Brooks uses this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They...
...counsel who had a proven record of impartiality, and who had never before taken part in a major government investigation. Senator Mundt played his hand carefully. Instead of starting the investigation immediately, when public opinion was strongly in favor of the Army, he waited two weeks on the pretext that he had to select a counsel. But he didn't have far to look. In his desk he had a letter from Samuel P. Sears '17, asking...
...Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, showing no such restraint, delivered a fiery counterattack, directly naming the U.S., and made the biggest oratorical hit of the week with conference delegates. Rhetorically demanding: "What is international Communism?" he lashed out at "imperialism" and "foreign monopolies," then called the U.S. program "only a pretext to intervene in our internal affairs." Toriello went on to recall "the Big Stick, the tarnished 'dollar diplomacy' and the landing of the U.S. Marines in Latin American ports" that marked U.S.-Latin American relations in the old days before nonintervention became the U.S. doctrine. Having played...