Word: pretexts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem of just how she will achieve her goal-after all, even today, murderers do not grow on trees. There is also the relentless Spark humor. In the erratic course of her last day, Lise is befriended by two other freaks who provide the author with a pretext to mock the latest fashions in absurdity. The prize example is a young man named Bill who prattles about Yin and Yang and follows a lunatic regimen that calls for three urinations and one orgasm daily...
...Nixon Agonistes is about Nixon the way that the Odyssey is about Odysseus- the title character appears at the beginning, shows up for a grand finale, and occasionally gets mentioned in the middle. The author has used his title character as a pretext to talk about what he really wants to explore, which is America, the American way of life, and American politics. Nixon is the model, the archetype, but America is the species under study...
...rescue mission to get Americans and hostages out of the embattled country. But Nixon's private talk to Chicago editors, the air of urgency in Washington, the alerting of troops, all had their intended effect. No one could be sure that a rescue attempt would not be used as pretext for intervention. The President's unexpected dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia last spring made his actions now unpredictable...
...seems that Nixon invaded Cambodia to give a pretext for the continued bombing of Cambodia after the U.S. troops pull out. The plans for Cambodia come from the same drawing board that produced those for Laos. In any case, the U.S. Army found very few NLF soldiers in Parrot's Beak. As they passed through the densely populated rice-producing area-if we can believe the American papers-they razed village after village, thinks that the Red Khmers and theCambodian resistance is not yet as killing only peasants. Maybe Nixon strong as the Laotians and the Vietnamese, and that...
...seven Land Rovers on his way to Amman airport to meet Daughter Alia, 14, when the attackers struck from ambush. Hussein was uninjured, but the Jordanian army responded to the attack by shelling guerrilla camps around Amman. Fedayeen leaders complained that Hussein had staged the incident as a pretext for attacking them, but foreign diplomats accepted the palace's version. In any event, the incident provoked another round of fighting in Jordan between army and guerrillas. At least 14 people were reported killed in three days of clashes...