Word: pretexting
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...Orleans, blaring Negro bands were carted through the streets on the slightest pretext; the trombonist sat well back, over the parade wagon tailgate, where he had elbow room to maneuver his slide...
...dictators have thin skins. Last week Morinigo canceled all Paraguayan Government subscriptions to La Nation. Then, on the pretext that the Associated Press had "misquoted" him in La Nation, he suspended the A.P. in Paraguay. Democrats began to wish that Dictator Morinigo would stop trying so hard to be democratic...
...Criminals. "No one certainly thinks of disarming justice in its relations to those who have exploited the war situation in order to commit real and proved crimes against the common law, and for whom supposed military necessity could at most have offered a pretext, but never a justification...
...Boston Charles B. Rugg, counsel for Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, issued a statement saying that Forrestal's "suggested procedure is a spacious pretext to keep the truth of Pearl Harbor hidden from Dec. 7, 1941 to Nov. 7, 1944. This inconsistent and dilatory procedure is unjust to Admiral Kimmel...
Ryti & Co. had been war-dancing on dangerous ice since last June's sellout to the Nazis (TIME, July 10). The parliamentary pretext for Ryti's dismissal was a letter he wrote Hitler, promising that no Finn would make a step toward peace with Russia without first informing Berlin. But the cause of Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could...