Word: alibied
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...midst of the cold war, Vanguard's cool scientific goal proved to be disastrously modest: the Russians got there first. The post-Sputnik White House explanation that the U.S. was not in a satellite "race" with Russia was not just an after-the-fact alibi. Said Dr. Hagen ten months ago: "We are not attempting in any way to race with the Russians." But in the eyes of the world, the U.S. was in a satellite race whether it wanted to be or not, and because of the Administration's costly failure of imagination, Project Vanguard shuffled along...
Until Mamma Montesi cracked, Uncle Giuseppe had stubbornly clung to his original alibi: on the fatal day he had been out with his fiancee. Now under sharp questioning he changed his story, said that instead he was with his fiancee's sister (who, trying to help him out, admitted on the stand that Giuseppe was in fact the father of her illegitimate child). Almost at once, this alibi, too, began to fall apart. What remained was the damning testimony of one of his fellow employees that on the day of Wilma's death Uncle Giuseppe had left...
...Candler Canfield was less amused when she herself was arrested on a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice (she had lied in giving Boy Friend Bradshaw an alibi for the dynamiting). Said she to the McClellan committee: "There was a state policeman stood there for a while watching us, and after him Detective Welch came in to see we didn't leave the room, and after him [Detective] Wojciechowski came in, and since this was early in the morning and I was not allowed in the ladies' room, and it was 2 o'clock before we were...
Inspirational? One Americanism that irritates him, he told reporters, is the word hospitalized. "If a man is hospitalized, what is he when he is cured? De-hospitalized? Homeized?" He deplored the tendency to substitute alibi for excuse, called the phrase bi-partisan foreign policy absurd because it could only mean "doubly partisan." And what, he added, do Americans mean by inspirational-inspired or inspiring...
...Goodenough of the American made the most outspoken approval of Jordan. In a "Letter to President Pusey," he declared, "Jordan is a real man; he's not a moaner or alibi artist as are some of his contemporaries.... If this fine coach is removed, it will be a disgrace to the University and to Harvard football....Why not get some players instead? Or why not drop football entirely...