Word: alibiing
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...baseball fan as ever fumbled a grounder, used to fly to Florida each spring to work out with the Yankees, and has been in & out of the locker rooms of half the teams across the nation. He has made three baseball movies (Fireman Save My Child, Elmer the Great, Alibi Ike), and his contract with
...professors elaborated that "more embarassment" was no excuse for withholding testimony or exhibition one's hands on television. They felt the witness must be "subjecting himself to some degree of danger of a criminal offense," to justify his reticence. Also ruled out as an alibi was "a sense of sportsmanship forward suspected associates." The Fifth Amendment, they observed, says nothing about one's friends...
Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...
...breath too long." At the same time, the Lampoon published an editorial, calling Princeton a bunch of party boys more interested in clothes and athletics than scholarship. Princeton retorted that Harvard was taking a supercilious attitude toward their New Jersey neighbors, and that the Lampoon was trying to alibi for a series of defeats. The CRIMSON tried to placate both parties, saying that because of a patronizing attitude, "Princeton is out to get Harvard . . . but they are too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what is, at best, petty feudalism...
...reply, Soviet Delegate Alexei P. Pavlov snapped a grim warning to all Western newsmen. Oatis' post, said he, "was only an alibi for his true activities." Warned Pavlov: "If you start sending spies, you must remember that [they] will get what they deserve, and many of them will envy those whose fate is only a prison sentence . . . The Soviet Union and the People's Democracies are not one of your colonies, and if you stretch your paws there, we shall hack them...