Word: alibiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queen of U.S. amateur tennis got her first hint of trouble back home. The rulers of amateur tennis wanted to know whether Pauline Betz had turned pro. She ignored their cable, went back on court and proceeded to lose unexpectedly to Rumania's Magda Rurak. Pauline did not alibi; she said offhandedly: "Maybe I brought a little happiness to Rumania...
...alibi for Dick Lauterbach is that he's a Dartmouth man, '35, but he's been around since, mostly for Life and Time and largely in China and Russia ("These are the Russians".) He's one of five war correspondents in this year's batch of Nieman fellows, now being reconverted to more permanent status, most of them for further foreign service...
...hard at work behind her cigar counter. To the detective's consternation, Miss de Havilland has an identical twin. One of the girls was too near the scene of the crime. But the police cannot get a murder indictment without knowing for certain which girl has the unbreakable alibi. The twins themselves aren't talking...
Jeanne, the dead man's mistress, had an alibi. On the night of the crime she was with her parents...
...Governments had both shown uncertainty about what Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin whispered to each other by the Black Sea. That Secretary of State Byrnes (himself a charter member of the Knights) did not know of the Yalta deal on China was an invitation to everybody in need of an alibi to blame it on Yalta...