Word: pretexting
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...that article I was quoted as saying that the administration saw the department as a thorn in its side. This statement was made as a pretext to my observation that at the crux of the department's problems lies the administration's failure to fulfill certain commitments (tenured professorships, departmental chairs) that were made when the department began some ten years...
...advanced. Newspaper and magazine accounts cited the Shah's record in relaxing censorship, halting torture and replacing political prisoners as evidence of his willingness to cooperate with the opposition, and reported that the abortive land reform efforts of the '60s marked both the Shah's enlightenment and formed the pretext for opposition to his regime...
...also greedy for Kermit, and once, under the pretext of doing a wedding skit, she managed to maneuver him in front of a fully loaded preacher (he escaped the pit of matrimony by the desperate stratagem of summoning Lew Zealand, who had been hanging around backstage waiting for his lucky break, to bring on those tacky and awful boomerang fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked...
...sending in U.S. troops has been considered in the Government-but not favorably. There are contingency planners on both sides of the Potomac River who would have dearly loved to design an American military intervention to prop up the Shah or seize the Iranian oilfields, but they lacked the pretext that they would be protecting Iran from outside interference. "Hell," says one military official, "we would have been the outside interference...
...should do so "quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time on the pretext of going to the powder room and make the bill arrangements then...