Word: pretexting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year the students of Harvard were shocked by the refusal of the University authorities to allow them to hear Earl Browder. It was not in "good taste," the authorities said, because Browder was under indictment for a passport violation. But a large number of students saw through this flimsy pretext, recognized in the ban against the secretary of the Communist Party a dangerous attack on civil liberties, and several hundred students expressed their recognition by petitioning the University in protest...
Seven Little Balkans. It was not long in beginning. German SS men have circulated freely in Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria recently on the pretext that they were directing the rehabilitation of Germans returning to the Fatherland. Last week in Hungary the Arrow Cross Party of Naziphile Ferenc Szalesi presented to Premier Count Paul Teleki a demand for a voice in the Government, which was a sure preliminary to the Nazification of the country and a probable invitation to the German Army. Hungary is the first station on the Drang nach Östen...
Like the sectional tale, the picaresque novel is a natural form for a nation 3,000 miles wide, as it is for the writer who 1) wants to assemble incidents without pretext of a plot, 2) feels vague cosmic significances in man's wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly...
...serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...
Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...