Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire drill in Radcliffe's Holmes Hall last Sunday served as a pretext for a missing person search...
Long under fire by editors for stifling news on the pretext of "security," the Defense Department last week issued a report by its own special committee on the problem. The most explosive recommendation: reporters should be summoned to "a grand jury investigation" to divulge their source in the case of any serious "leak" of information. This was so certain to infuriate the press that Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson pointedly tagged it with "serious reservations" as he released the report...
...force moved in. the pretext for Soviet intervention would vanish. But the conditions that made the threat possible-the hatreds and tensions, the obvious advantage to the Kremlin of involving the West in a drawn-out and profitless war there-remain...
...Accordingly, they told Ben-Gurion they could promise him no support if he insisted on holding Sinai. From Washington Ambassador Abba Eban telephoned urging moderation and reporting that President Eisenhower was sending a personal message asking the Prime Minister to back down so as to give the Russians no pretext for intervention...
...agreed that Bulganin should be told to mind his own business. But the members disputed long over the ceasefire. Butler reiterated his argument that further gains by British arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers in massive numbers to Egypt, with untold consequences to the balance of power in the Middle East. By 1 p.m. Eden yielded. He advised Mollet: "We've practically won. Nasser cannot last long now, anyway...