Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy's deliberations with his top advisers. In contrast to the traditional version of the episode, one of the leading hawks, at least initially, is the President's brother Bobby. He is heard suggesting that it may be necessary to "sink the Maine again or something" as a pretext for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
...should think of this as a country where the military is seeking any pretext to intervene. I would not like to provide the pretext...
Victims of hurricanes, drought, debts, superstition and disease, peasants are constantly preyed upon. Those with a bit of land are hesitant to improve it for fear of attracting the attention of covetous gros negs, who often hire corrupt lawyers to steal the land on one pretext or another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under...
RUNNING on Empty puports to be about politics. In fact, the movie treats its political issues in only the most cursory and simplistic way. In reality the movie is about family, about love and about a son's coming of age. Politics is a pretext for these other issues, and unfortunately, in the hands of director Sidney Lumet, they are made tired and trite...
...work in oil fields. It was a way of continuing the effete cure on a grander scale; the ironic thing in Bush's case is that the cure would just confirm, in some people's eyes, the ailment. Luckily, Bush had enough money to indulge his urge, under the pretext that it was done in order to make money. How little that motive was actually at work appears from the easy way he gave up the enterprise when it promised to bring in serious returns. In his autobiography, which plays down Andover and the East, the move to Texas...