Word: pretexting
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...Palazzo Venezia balcony and make his sententious announcement (see p. 20) just when he did? II Duce gave no indication in his speech of the reason for his timing. The only hint of a reason came from France's Premier Paul Reynaud: "What was the pretext of his declaration of war? When, this afternoon, at 4:30, our Ambassador François-Poncet asked Count Ciano this question, Mussolini replied that he was 30 doing nothing but fulfilling the pledges that he had given Hitler."Europe's innocent bystanders, small of stature and short of hope, anxiously wondered...
...Catholic Church. "Any Irishman," the Bishop told assembled Connaughtmen, "who assists any foreign power to attack the legitimate authority of his own land is guilty of the most terrible crime against God's law, and there can be no excuse for that crime-not even the pretext of solving partition or of securing unity...
...lower living-standard. This may be necessary in the near future, but it cannot be dovetailed with the facts to date. There is the final and vital objection that conscription, once established, would become permanent much like the income tax; it would probably be maintained on one or another pretext...
...Politics," says Oscar Ameringer, "is the art by which politicians obtain campaign contributions from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other...
...very proud that Mickey takes her (instead of one of his pretty young things) to big Hollywood affairs like the Academy awards dinner (TIME, March 11). Of course, she knows his taking her does no harm to the legend of Mickey Rooney the typical American Boy. Mom welcomes any pretext to show admirers Mickey's baby clothes, his first shoes and rubbers, which she has kept carefully all these years. She also keeps carefully the half of all Mickey's earnings which (by California's Jackie Coogan law) goes to her. Three years ago, Mom remarried-dark...