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Word: alibied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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People whose names fall between A and M register from 1 to 3 p.m., followed by N to Z from 3 to 4p.m. Anyone may register from 4 to 5p.m. Those who fail to report must pay a fine of $10 unless they can produce an extraordinary alibi. "Only an 'act of God" will be considered as a valid excuse," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 4430 Students Will Register This Afternoon in Mem Hall | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

...eleventh member of the gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced by an acetylene torch and buried in a dump near O'Keefe's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Big Payoff | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...press an official inquiry into several unanswered questions, e.g., who helped smuggle Betty aboard, and how did she manage to slip past the quarterdeck watch? By week's end silence had settled over the incident, to which Betty herself, back at her favorite haunt, Kilroy's Club Alibi, was contributing nothing. "I was drunk," she said primly. "I don't wish to make no further statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Shape in the Dawn | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that the story idea was only half right for Hollywood. Jaws drop, eyes pop, and guys go for gats as Jerry announces to his hoods that he is going to return the millions and give himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...cops also nabbed a touring New Yorker, Martin Irving LipStein, 34, who had arrived before the killing and aroused suspicion by his eagerness to leave the next day. Lipstein produced an alibi, swearing that he had been rubbernecking at ships in the canal at the hour of gunplay, and his release was expected early this week. Dozens of others were run in. By week's end, implicitly confessing bafflement, the police were importing detectives from New York, Cuba, Costa Rica and Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Murder of a Strongman | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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