Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington would have disclosed that Racey Jordan had been trying to peddle his story for nearly a month, and reputable news organizations had turned it down because it was contradictory and full of holes. As an excuse for being taken in, some news editors fell back on the old alibi that they were merely being "objective" and printing the day's news without taking any sides. Actually, such "objectivity" meant that the shrieking headlines and deadpan stories gave the readers few or no clues for getting at the heart of the matter, i.e., that they were based on entirely...
...When I helped Anna White I had no idea of getting something back," mused Portia. "But now, at a time when I need her most, she comes to me offering to try to get the facts I need to break Steve Ward's alibi. God has a strange and wonderful way of knowing what He's doing...
...Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the crime by squeezing his testicles with a bicycle lock. Nuzum's landlady, who backed the athlete's alibi, had been warned by the sheriff that "he didn't want any more dead women around here...
Washington showed no sign of reactivating its China policy. In fact, the Truman Administration never had a determined policy aimed at stopping communism in China. Its loudest alibi has been that Chiang Kai-shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy and partly as a result of Chiang's own spectacular failure to keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement...
Warners' Girl. Olivia's professional life was thus entrusted to the guardianship of the Warner Brothers. After her ethereal job in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the girl with the esthetic face was cast as the cutie-heroine of Alibi Ike, a baseball picture starring Joe E. Brown. Later she appeared as the ingenue in Captain Blood, opposite Errol Flynn. Henceforth she was frozen into a cycle of Flynn-flam. Says she: "It almost drove me crazy...