Word: pretexting
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...They showed no hesitation in replying to our questions and we never found any contradiction among the statements made by persons from the same village. . . . The Turks rounded up and deported these people on the pretext that war was about to break out between Irak and Turkey...
...command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted for starving Brest, the guillotine overshadowing all, Cobb loyally strove to secure his owner's just dues. Revolutionary officialdom caressed its neck with premonitory tenderness and did nothing but lose his papers. He forced his way to Robespierre and the sea-green monster granted full indemnities. "I remained...
...unwillingness of Mrs. Gubbins to give up the insurance which is being paid her for her son's death her tendency to indulge in what Mrs. Gump called "nips", Spoofy's strange mania for burglarizing anyone on the slightest pretext, and the inevitable mixup with Scotland Yard, all provide wholesome laughs a plenty...
...Symphony Society, and partly of leering persons who, well knowing that the novel of James Branch Cabell is crisp with supposed "salaciousness," came in hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused by the book or by some-thing else. The score is persuasive, adept, unoriginal. Critics-Mr. Taylor's colleagues, friends and rivals-were enthusiastic...
Mussolini has occupied all lodges with the military and thus forced double vengeance on those accused. He will not let matters rest there. The pretext for increased despotism is yesterday's announced plot. It comes so timely for Mussolini's purposes that doubt whether the plot existed is permissible...