Word: pretexting
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According to an Administration official, requests for special treatment of Private Schine poured in from McCarthy's office. Whether or not Cohn's badgering was effective. Schine led the life of a golden boy at Fort Dix, N.J. Under the pretext of having work to do for McCarthy, Private Schine got extra weekend passes and after-hours passes during his recruit training. Reports reached the Army that Schine's "investigating" work was often conducted at his penthouse apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers, and at such niteries as the Stork Club and "21." At camp...
Italy's biggest trade union, the Red-led C.G.I.L.. called 24-hour general strikes on the pretext of demanding an overdue wage increase. But several days before the strikes, the new government of Mario Scelba had cut the ground from under them by promising a raise. That did not stop the Reds: they surged into downtown Rome and massed for a march on the Chamber. Scelba was ready: thousands of his celere rushed in, quietly hustled 500 toughs off to jail...
Cold Chills. It was the typical Russian revolving defense. Molotov's real reason, Dulles suggested, was one he had not mentioned: Russia's Red armies are legally kept in Hungary and Rumania on the pretext of maintaining communication with Soviet occupation forces in Austria...
...nubile 13 she was married to Giovanni Sforza, of the powerful Milanese Sforzas. But for her father, this was just the beginning. Four years later he forced Giovanni to an annulment on the pretext (scandalously false) that the marriage had never been consummated. Soon Lucrezia was sent higher up the political scale by marriage to the bastard son of the powerful King of Naples. This one lasted two years. Then Cesare had the fellow murdered, and husband No. 3 was found for Lucrezia : Alfonso d'Este, son of the even more powerful Duke of Ferrara...
...about ended, but sees further ominous, headline-seeking investigation of Communists is industry. "I'm a little bit scared by this whole development. If you extend loyalty probes to private business, you may end up with a sort of ostracism of people. This is quite dangerous when, on the pretext of security, you can force people to starve...