Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confession v. Alibi. When the details of the confession checked out in Portsmouth, Loughan was charged with murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove...
...runs a small weekly in Durant, Miss.? She knows what it means to attack a corrupt political machine, to have her shop bombed, to be shot at-to print the truth when a law man shot a Negro in the back at close range and then used the old alibi "he was trying to escape...
...twins' favorite reading was Whitaker's Almanack; in the ensuing 26 years, they have added to their fund of statistics at Maryborough and Oxford, and as newsmen in London. In a scant 16 weeks, the McWhirters finished the book, and in the process they found an alibi for Sir Hugh: some game birds, they discovered, fly at a hard-to-hit 72 m.p.h...
Horror-stricken Japanese judokas scrabbled for an alibi. The new champion had traveled to Tokyo earlier in the year to spy on Japanese tactics, they said. The Japanese team had not had enough money to return the "honor." A judo professor at Tokyo's Police University blamed the loss on the manner in which U.S. occupation forces revised Japan's education system. A Tokyo nutrition expert argued that Sone had been weakened by eating Parisian breakfasts of coffee and croissants instead of Japanese dried seaweed, bean-paste soup, hot rice...
...shares with her brother, they get out of their wet things and into some loose dialogue. Out go the lights, but he, it seems, has scruples about "beginners." Back come the lights on the semi-robed twosome, in barges the boy friend, marriage-bent, out springs the half-believable alibi that he is Eileen's brother, up pops the real brother...