Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, Kurt Nielsen wore his best court manners; there was no clowning or glowering. "One should sing as the birds one is with," he explained. Then, in a succession of upsets, he knocked three top-seeded stars out of the tournament. In each case, his victim had a physical alibi: the U.S.'s Gardnar Mulloy (No. 5) a leg cramp, Australia's Ken Rosewall (No. 1) a queasy stomach, Czech-born Jaroslav Drobny (No. 4) a wrenched leg muscle. Nonetheless, there Nielsen was: a Wimbledon finalist, and the first unseeded one since...
...through an old manhole to the basement, poke through the brick wall, ransack deserted stores and return to the jailhouse. Why didn't they just keep right on going to freedom? Reasoned Sheriff Perry for his prisoners: why break up a good thing when you have a perfect alibi...
...baseball fan as ever fumbled a grounder, used to fly to Florida each spring to work out with the Yankees, and has been in & out of the locker rooms of half the teams across the nation. He has made three baseball movies (Fireman Save My Child, Elmer the Great, Alibi Ike), and his contract with
...professors elaborated that "more embarassment" was no excuse for withholding testimony or exhibition one's hands on television. They felt the witness must be "subjecting himself to some degree of danger of a criminal offense," to justify his reticence. Also ruled out as an alibi was "a sense of sportsmanship forward suspected associates." The Fifth Amendment, they observed, says nothing about one's friends...
Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...