Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismissal rests on the specious pretext of a new Yankee policy on retirement, but baseball fans across the country have not been taken in by it. From volatile Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox president, to a Brooklyn tattooist to a Broadway astrologer, they have voiced their indignation at this injustice...
Seizing on the pretext that the falling out between Kasavubu and Lumumba might lead to civil rioting that the U.N. would have to deal with, Hammarskjold's officers ordered the main airports closed to all but U.N. planes, and Hammarskjold reported to the Security Council that "certain assistance from outside" was keeping the threat of civil war alive and gravely handicapping the U.N.'s task. In Washington, President Eisenhower considered the Russian intervention so serious that he had a special statement ready at his press conference warning the Soviets "to desist from unilateral activities." Ike charitably admitted there...
...straw hat on his head, Castro made a pass at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, saying that if the U.S. continues trying to "ruin our economy we will demand withdrawal of their forces." But he added that since the "dou ble dealing" State Department was looking for "a pretext to bloody our homeland" his government "will never attack the base." In the wake of Cuba's newest seizures of U.S. property, including the 13-store, $5,000,000 Minimax supermarket chain and three rubber plants worth $25 million under way, Castro announced that the remaining U.S. holdings (valued...
Signs were evident that the Russians were planning to put the U.S. on trial rather than Powers, using him as a pretext for a propaganda spectacular. The Kremlin laid down a steady propaganda barrage designed to stir up anger and suspicion toward the U.S. among the Russian people (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said a Soviet radio broadcast: "Not only Powers, the immediate executor of the aggressive actions of the U.S. Government, will be in the dock, but his masters in Washington as well." Once the Russians get full propaganda use of him. Powers himself might get off with a light sentence...
Next, Khrushchev's rhetorical indignation was trained on the Congo. "It is not only Belgium, it is NATO," he shouted, "that is dispatching troops to suppress the people of the Congo by force, on the pretext of alleged disorder. This is an attempt to reduce them to colonial status again...