Word: pretexting
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...have a daughter who goes to Radcliffe and who was tricked into buying a subscription to the Lampoon on the pretext that it was a refined humor magazine. It was all right as long as it just printed those "clubby" articles and stories. But in this latest issue, they have shown that they have no inherent decency...
Last week, in Communist-run Poland, where the Witnesses have a 50-year history and claim 20,000 members, the sect was officially outlawed. The charge: operating "one of the outposts of a U.S. intelligence network" with headquarters in Brooklyn. On the pretext of witnessing, the security police had claimed, the group "organized and serviced spy centers whose duties, among other things, included diversion, gathering information of military, economic and commercial importance and placing spies...
Discreetly, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave him breathers by posing long questions. Three times Wherry wangled short recesses on the pretext that he could get an agreement from Cain. Each time, Cain made a beeline for the washroom, returning to his desk relieved and refreshed. But he flatly refused to compromise. By suppertime, each side had reduced itself to a corporal's guard, left behind in case of a break. The rest slipped off to dinner parties or catnapped on cots in the cloakrooms. Some fortified their spirits with quick nips of bourbon...
...Voice has its biggest impact in Iron Curtain countries, where, along with BBC, it is almost the only source of truthful news. Listening to the Voice is not technically illegal, but people caught listening are often fined or jailed under some pretext. In Hungary, where Voice listeners seem most ardent, newspapers constantly report cases of people who have been jailed for spreading Voice reports. Hungarian universities have inaugurated a "political hour" in which the instructor puts his students through a daily catechism on "why the Voice of America lied last night...
...have people, rightly called bookworms, who have quotations from Marx and Engels ready for every occasion and every pretext. Instead of laboring to think up something new or studying experience, they have one answer: 'No, that was not said by Marx,' or 'Engels said something else.' If Marx could rise from the grave and see such a follower (if this term is permissible), he undoubtedly would immediately disown...