Word: pretexting
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...reared blunt, thundering, red-faced Andrew Jackson Higgins, boss and promoter of the whole show: "gross stupidity . . . a pretext . . . worse for the State than if the river flooded New Orleans." Sympathetic Louisiana Representatives started an investigation. Last week the investigating committee completed publication of its hearings, now anyone could decide for himself why the Higgins yard was closed...
...reject any or all of the other four, for themselves, if they so desire." Reason: "Democracy will become the political salvation of the race, if and as it is voluntarily embraced by non-democratic peoples and adapted to their respective conditions, but never if it is made a pretext for an attempt at enforced conformity...
...injures or annoys B, on the pretext of saving or improving X, then A is a scoundrel...
Liberal democrats got the wind up. They feared that, under pretext of driving Nazi and Japanese spies out of Latin America, the conference might set up a hemispheric Gestapo against leftists, liberals and labor,* that it might "coordinate" the right of asylum out of existence. But they counted without the U.S. delegation...
...Road to Mandalay. The capitulation of Thailand, probably long arranged, paved the way for an attack on Burma. A Japanese force cut up-country as fast as it could go. Perhaps as a pretext for invading Burma, the Japanese announced that the British, with some Chinese help, had pushed 30 miles into Thailand to Chieng Rai. This the British denied. The Japanese bombed Burmese airports to try to get air superiority...