Word: alibiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these were good reasons for Dies to step down, but they did not make his throat ailment a phony alibi. Friends say he has a growth in his larynx that may require a Mayo Clinic operation...
...phantom. Her handsome dolor is made the more memorable by a fiercely rhetorical hat. At the evening's end she drifts off without giving her name, and Architect Henderson drifts homeward to find detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither has the Latin singer (Carmen Miranda's sister, Aurora), who threw a jealous tantrum because she and the Lady were wearing duplicate hats. Henderson...
...kissed his wife, Sir Harry's 19-year-old daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into his car, told the driver to race for home. There Grisou, the Maltese "alibi" cat, stood on his hind legs at the window, making strong noises in his throat...
...Plan for Defeat. Hitler told the Germans that they must be willing to swap some of their conquered territory for military security. This statement was not merely an alibi for retreat. It was a clue to Germany's strategy of defeat...
...Russians, almost to a man, could see no arguments whatever against a second front. They were fighting a war in one country-their invaded own. There might be war in Britain, North Africa, China, the Pacific -to Russians deep in their awful present, the global war was an unreal alibi for inaction in Western Europe...