Word: pretext
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...provide a pretext for his absence, the East German news agency carried a story that he was ill. But the very next day, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew into East Berlin from Moscow for talks with Ulbricht, who for a 77-year-old has shown remarkable recuperative powers...
...pretext for the Son Tay raid was fragile. Cora Weiss, who returned from Hanoi with the news that six prisoners of war had died, has claimed that Laird twisted the information and that, in her opinion, the prisoners did not die of mistreatment. The U. S. can easily hoke up another "mistreatment" scare whenever it decides that the North Vietnamese need a dose of terror, and send in the kamikaze killers...
...preliminary consultations are over, but there are now strong indications that the Corporation will soon cut off the open debate and make the final decision in the same isolation as before. The latest pretext offered for such a move comes from Corporation member Charles Slichter, who sternly warned the Committee on Governance that "the fact that this list has been published as a list of candidates throws open the whole selection process and may make new ground rules necessary...
...generally hailed as progress, especially in detente-minded West Germany. Chancellor Willy Brandt is particularly anxious for a settlement in Berlin to buttress his shaky coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Still, if the Russians want to heighten tensions in the city again, they got the perfect pretext at week's end. A rightist sniper, who left behind handbills charging that Brandt was abandoning West Berlin, seriously wounded a Soviet sentry guarding the Russian war memorial in the British sector of the city...
...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...