Word: pretexting
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...learn from "capitalist sales methods." Mikoyan's conclusion: "It should be kept in view that under competitive conditions, because of growing sales difficulties, bourgeois countries have created good models of trade organization . . . cultured means of serving customers. It is impossible not to condemn those comrades who, under the pretext of fighting subservience before foreigners, ignore foreign experience, cease to interest themselves in it, to study it, and to utilize that which is useful...
...obvious purpose is not to convict the man on the stand but to use the testimony of the witness to find out about someone with whom he has been associated and whom he may be protecting under the pretext that he is protecting himself. An attorney general with the power that Brownell wants would have to choose carefully between suspected conspirators, lest big ones get away by testifying under immunity while less guilty associates are trapped by the testimony of the more guilty. But this task is not impossible. Said Brownell: "Almost every heinous crime on the law books, committed...
Hope for a Compromise. All of the unions were trying to force a reconvening of the National Assembly-the Socialists and Catholics in real hope of a solution, or at least a graceful pretext for going back to work, the Communists in hope of a brawl that would worsen the nation's plight. Laniel was conferring with the Force Ouvrière and Catholic leaders, but not with the Reds...
...Funerals. In merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...
...warning comes true one late autumn day, when a pathological killer gets loose in Middenshot. With balmy cunning, Herbert lures him and a Middenshot rapist to the coal shed on the pretext of helping them evade the police, and shoots a hypodermic of hydrocyanic acid into each. Before anyone has a chance to discover Herbert's private executions, he and a pair of philosophical detectives have more than enough time to labor Author Mittelholzer's pet thesis, i.e., criminals are born, not made. His further contention: eugenics experts should be given the job of blotting out young Hitlers...