Word: pretexting
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...spike the gossip. For a time he thinks he has suc- ceeded. But when the gossip starts again, the Cathedral rocks with it. To save the Cathedral's honor, not Carmichael's soul, frightened Cathedral officials decide to send the Canon to another church on the pretext that his health...
...found that the worst metropolitan foci of anti-evolution feeling were Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles. In Boston he was informed that although there were no "official restrictions" on teaching evolution in the Boston high schools, a teacher who talked about it too freely would be fired on some other pretext. In the South, many a teacher who subscribed to Evolution cautioned him against sending copies to their schools, gave him their home addresses...
...other B'nai B'rith lodges were raided, seized and evacuated, as were children's homes, sanatoriums and homes for the aged supported by the society. Though most of those arrested were later released, the entire organization was ordered dissolved and its funds seized, on the pretext that one of the 14,000 German members of the B'nai B'rith had "engaged in Communistic propaganda." For years B'nai B'rith expenditures in Germany have averaged a million marks a year. Three weeks ago an order was issued forbidding Jewish organizations...
...home and leave a big watermelon or bushel of peaches. Then things are hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make a stand in with those in power then they keep others out. The first insurance man is allowed to peddle his insurance under the pretext that he is a local man. It may not be in restraint of trade but it certainly gives a lot of people a chance to work a little graft. It never helps the town because a lot of the inhabitants get mad and buy from other places...
Bear in mind that none of this cruelty can find a pretext in the Civil War, for Catalonia has escaped civil war up to the present, and you will see that the misdeeds and atrocities of which our enemies are guilty are but part of the policy to which they intended to subject the whole of Spain in accordance with the dictates of Moscow had we not risen to prevent them...