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I was disappointed that there was no entry for Wilson Goode, the first black mayor of Philadelphia, or for Dick Allen, the first black superstar baseball player for the Phillies, who was traded to St. Louis in the deal that was to bring Curt Flood to Philadelphia, the deal that Flood used as a pretext for challenging the reserve clause.
The cartridge blunder became a pretext for avenging other grievances, with troops rallying around the rulers dispossessed by Lapse or Paramountcy.
The final step is coming up with a pretext for your decision.
It forms the latticework through which we can peer at the risqué private life, the slender pretext for voyeurism's pleasures.
It was a Cuban minister, after all, who said yesterday that developing nations needed to stick together, because "we produce goods and services with comparative advantages that they [that is, the United States and Europe] are trying to take away under the pretext of so-called labor standards."