Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave generous gifts to them. As for "gold vessels," the only thing of its kind mentioned in the Biblical story was one cup which was not gold but silver. Joseph ordered it to be placed in the sack of his full brother, Benjamin, so he would have a pretext to keep him in Egypt. We all know that Harry Truman is rewriting history to suit the doctrines of the Democratic Party. Has Bob Poage undertaken the job of rewriting the Bible for the same purpose...
...because they must warble Evensong at 3:15 p.m. five days a week, asked for a pay hike from $675 a year to $1,000. No strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with the suspended singer toying with the idea of lorming a choristers' union, Dr. Johnson chortled: "A storm in a teacup! They're all there, singing away...
...Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery for the annual Blue-Gray (North v. South) Bowl game. Drawled Kissin' Jim jovially...
...Jaeger's sincere fear of offending them was typical of his deep interest in people and personal relationships. Busy as he is, and important as he is, Jaeger will always stop work in Widener 776 to talk for hours--literally hours--with any student who comes in on any pretext whatsoever. Unlike many insignificant section men, he always knows the names, the abilities, and the problems of every student in one of his courses. His international fame constantly brings scholars from all over the world to his office, and there is no secretary there to give them the brush...
...News won three first prizes for editorials from the North Carolina Press Association. Publisher Robinson rattled around Charlotte in his battered old Dodge to speak to citizens' groups, hustled for ads Unce on a visit to Manhattan, he phoned Colgate-Palmolive Co. Chairman E. H Little on the pretext that he wanted to pay hls respects "to the most prominent North Carolinian in New York " Little was so pleased that he sent his car around tor Robinson, who ended up with an ad contract from the soap company In 8½ years, the News's circulation has risen...