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Word: alibis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describe the feelings of the team as we enter the Yale game, I would say that we are determined. We're determined to prove to ourselves and to the University that as disappointing as the season has been, we have a fine squad. We're not trying to alibi or explain-we simply mean to win. JOHN JUDKINS (manager): When we leave for New Haven this morning, there well be but one thought in our minds-beat Yale. The team is in the beat mental and physical shape of the season. If the student body will back us tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Camp in Confident Spirits | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Down in the Lehigh Valley | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Swift Nicks, another highwayman "invented and perpetrated," according to Miss de la Torre, "the first faked alibi on record." He robbed a gentleman at Gad's Hill near London at 4 in the morning, and by hard riding reached York (180 miles away) in the afternoon; "put off his Boots and riding Cloaths, and went dress'd as if be had been an Inhabitant of the Place to the Bowling-green," where he asked the Lord Mayor what time it was. Later a jury acquitted him, on his lordship's swearing to his alibi. King Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chronicles of Crime | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike, directed by Fletcher Markle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi, she-and her husband-will be forever compromised. She and the audience know that it was a perfectly innocent night she spent with the musician-but will the British voters believe it? These faintly lubricous difficulties are ultimately straightened out in a court trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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