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Word: alibied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spite & Suspicion. The Poage amendment was beaten. So was an amendment guaranteeing a four-month freeze as of July 7 on all wages and prices (except rents and farm prices), whipped up by James C. Davis of Stone Mountain, Ga. to embarrass the Administration and give the coalition the alibi that they had tried to get "real" controls. The amendment would enrage labor, which is still trying to get wage "readjustments," would freeze all present price inequities which Di Salle would like to correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: From the Stomach | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...consents to marry him. But when Bridegroom Heflin puts together the brother's knowledge that the dead man was sterile and his bride's happy announcement that she expects a child, he quickly realizes that the sum is more than scandalous; it is enough to break his alibi that he had never met the woman before her husband's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...graduate student stoutly backed the alibi of Albert C. Knaus, Jr. 1E in the forgery trial at the Middlesex Superior Court yesterday, and a handwriting expert said Knaus did not sign the forged checks...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer, | Title: Student, Graphologist Back Knaus; Rebuttal Witness Surprises Court | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

...sure, apologists may argue ad nauseum and alibi artists may spin endless excuses. All jailbirds, it will be said, are clubhouse lawyers. But should they be good enough lawyers to out-talk the young Phi Betes who are prepping for Harvard law classes once taught by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound, and Felix Frankfurter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 2/27/1951 | See Source »

Haven. In West Warwick, R.I., Arakel Kojoian was cleared of an assault charge when he testified that on the night of the crime he was playing cards at the Alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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