Word: alibiing
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...national elections. He spent two days in bed with an upset stomach, on election day went to Panmunjom to watch a routine armistice meeting. But Lucas nonetheless filed on the election. He found it "less violent than in the past," dismissed charges of widespread election frauds as the transparent alibi of the defeated South Korean Democratic Party, which he claimed had been aided in its deceit by "segments of the American press" (other U.S. correspondents in Korea, persuaded that the elections had been rigged, promptly banded together in a "Segment Club"). According to Lucas, bloody post-election-day rioting...
...element, his wife, Janet Leigh, enters the lab and explodes. Janet promptly informs the errant Tony that he has defiled their five-year marriage and that she is heading for Reno to be decontaminated. Poor Tony begs his old pal, Dean Martin, a TV writer, to cook up an alibi to placate Janet. Dean's idea: Tony is really an undercover FBI man, and the girl he kissed is an enemy agent spying on a secret Government project at Columbia...
...indiscreet" letters were found in her home. Questioned, Mickey said that during the hours when Rosie McMillan was killed, he had been in a coffee shop with an official from the U.S. Department of Education, had later seen the man off on a plane. But in checking the alibi, police said they found that no such official existed, that there had been no airline flight from Baton Rouge at the time Mickey claimed, and that the entire story was "without foundation...
...with demonstrable facts and sworn testimony, and that in their similarity they clearly proved a conspiracy to thwart the law in a reasonable inquiry. In the early afternoon of Nov. 14, 1957, he contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop in on ailing Pal Joe Barbara...
...This alibi is wearing thin. U.S. instruments are indeed sophisticated, but to judge by their achievements, Russian space vehicles must be packed with gadgetry that is just as good, perhaps better. The Russians' guidance systems perform well, their radios work fine. So do their instruments, which have made important scientific discoveries deep in space, such as proof by Lunik II that the moon has no magnetic field. If Lunik III should round the moon and bring back pictures, or even nonpictorial data, about the mysterious far side, the U.S. would have to admit that the Russians are far ahead...