Word: alibiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolff offers an alibi, but no cure, to people with routine hangovers. The amount of alcohol consumed has little to do with the morning-after head pain, he says: it comes from fatigue and excitement. Heavy drinkers will applaud the Wolff theory: that whooping it up all night, without touching a drop, is enough to cause a hangover...
...that gahdam cox," was the implausible alibi of C. Colby Hewitt, Jr. '49, spokesman for the crew. "Not only did he weigh 149 pounds, but he was dragging his foot too. I was pulling the whole gahdam boat as it was, but that was just too much," he snarled...
Suffering from an inferiority complex after last year's flasco season, primed with the alibi of no outdoor practice, the tennis team sailed into southern waters last week with all the odds against it. Team members hoped to make the four matches close; they didn't expect...
...Moslem witness could be found to support the prosecution; no Sikh or Hindu witness would support Dr. Qureshi's alibi. When the testimony concluded last week, the judge decided matters for himself: "The accused is sentenced to death." The judge was a Hindu...
...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...