Word: pretexting
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Persistent Spain. Long-drawn, indecisive talks with slippery little Caudillo Francisco Franco made no visible progress despite recent misinformation to the contrary. Already cut off from U.S. oil, Spain seized Anglo-U.S. oil stocks in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco, on the pretext that Spanish taxes had not been paid. The U.S. and Britain protested, but Spanish tungsten continued to flow into Germany for high-speed tools and armor-piercing shells...
...offices with murals depicting the horrors of U.S. life, Americans pondered the lesson that even painting can be used for political propaganda. In St. Louis last week they proved that the lesson had been learned. Eleven paintings were removed from an exhibition at St. Louis' Artists' Guild. Pretext: their "controversial character." Most of the banned canvases were critical of the New Deal...
...Army itself has been, and is, quick to compliment the U.S. press on proficient guarding of military information to which the press was privy. But recently the Army has stretched the pretext of "security" to blue-pencil information critical of the Army. Item: the Army attempted to kill a statement that the invasion of New Georgia was "a bungled job," on the ground that it would give propaganda material to the enemy (who knew all about...
Censor's Cases. As Censor Price well knew, many a volunteer censor had suppressed news stories or portions of news stories under the pretext of security for the Armed Forces-when the real reason was that the suppressed facts did no credit to his organization. Recent example: the Defense Plant Corp. held up a Tulsa Tribune story on coal mining for five months (TIME, Dec. 13). More celebrated example was the holdup of the General Patton story on the appeal of the Army High Command in Africa. There were hundreds of other instances...
...expression "inverse feedback". Upon hearing this term used for the first time I could not help but conjure up the idea that it referred to a designing female who, intent upon her prey, cajoles an unsuspecting officer into accepting a home-cooked dinner date and then on the pretext of "ration coupons, you know" drags him off to the luxuriant confines of some expensive restaurant, there to prove herself to be an "inverse feedback--or feedbag"--depending upon your mood and your pronunciation...