Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them to Israeli agents. Before they could arrest him, Walcott skipped out, leaving behind his plane. A Lebanese military court sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment at hard labor. But by that time Walcott had been in London to recruit two pilots and rent a plane under the pretext that he ran a freight-hauling service for oil companies in the Middle East. Picking up a consignment of 675 Swiss watches in Nicosia, he headed back to India under the name of Peter Philby...
...Members of Opus Dei can be found in all groups.) The third is the Monarchists, well organized but without mass popular support. And above them all is the army, leaning at the moment toward the monarchists but capable of stepping in at any moment with a pronunciamiento on the pretext of forestalling violence...
Elizabeth resolved to keep Mary a prisoner, and to provide a pretext Mary was persuaded to submit her cause to an English commission. Before this commission, the Scottish Regency produced its evidence that Mary was madly infatuated with Bothwell and had conspired with him to do away with her husband. Called the Casket Letters because allegedly they were recovered from a silver casket belonging to Mary, the documents consisted of eight letters, a love ballad supposedly written by Mary, and two marriage contracts she reputedly signed with Bothwell. On this evidence, historians have generally concluded that Mary was involved...
...thus stripping him of his biggest audience. That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore the complaints and suggestions of those who aided the revolution," Castello Branco vowed in a speech at Pôrto Alegre. "Yet we will not be diverted by those who, with the pretext of defending the revolution, want to smash liberty and benefit from its disappearance...
Radio Indonesia now spoke with another voice, proclaiming martial law and placing Djakarta in "a state of war." The revolt was said to be crushed, and Nasution's spokesman derided Untung's charge of a generals' plot as merely a pretext for his own personal coup. Sukarno was reported "safe and well," and rumor had it that the President was waiting out events at his summer palace in Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta...