Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin telephone number (only to be told that he could not speak to the Führer). But when the Government candidate, Conservative Reuben Hunt, attributed Britain's Libyan reverses to "our too-heavy shipments of arms to Russia," Independent Driberg accused him of a "wretched alibi for the incompetence of brass hats," and Maldon agreed with Driberg...
...years ago Edmonds had to give up smoking because of incipient cancer. Now he drinks water copiously to alibi those constant work-stoppages that most writers find so necessary when facing a piece of blank paper. At such times Edmonds' three-year-old daughter often stands outside his forbidden door and sighs: "My daddy is working in there." With a pang of conscience he takes his feet off the desk, begins hammering his typewriter like Young Ames on the make...
...were being established on an arcing line, running roughly from Leningrad to Smolensk to Orel to Kharkov to Odessa, in an area embracing excellent north-south rail communications. Subsequent German dispatches termed it "a loose network of strong points-an elastic winter line." By last week the winter-quarters alibi was wearing thin. The Germans would have to hump if winter quarters were to be established before warm weather...
...nation has a better right than Russia to such tart criticism. But not waiting for Moscow's alibi that the views of David Zaslavsky are strictly individual, tall, garrulous Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, Russian-wise editor of New York's crusading PM snorted...
ALPHABET HICKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehort ($2). Clever alibi-busting by wily ex-lawyer detective clears up murders in a plastics laboratory near New York. Hicks is a worthy addition to the Stout sleuth-stable (other occupants: Nero Wolfe, Tecumseh...