Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ever-new assistants stepped briskly to the stand with ever-new documents. Their task: to prove that the deeds which the indictment labeled "crimes against humanity" had been committed by individual human beings, just like the murder or the bank-robbery around the corner. Under the hammer of evidence, alibi after alibi cracked open...
...Alibi. In ensuing hours of cross-examination he was never trapped into contradiction. Yamashita simply waited, without anger, through the prosecutor's periods of elaborate sarcasm, then licked his lips and answered in unhesitant Japanese...
...Lots of Alibi. Overnight, Talbert's knee stiffened so he could barely walk. But he limped onto the court with a crack: "There's nothing wrong with my knee, except I can't bend it." Somehow, he covered enough ground to beat Parker the first two games. Then, when the count had evened at 4-all, the two battled through 18 games without a break in service. The crowd of 12,000 rose to applaud - and stretch - when Talbert's tremendous serve put him ahead, 12-11. But after doing the impossible on one good...
...moaned. "I'm not trying to alibi a silly statement," he said, "but I can't even ride. Oh, why didn't I keep my big mouth shut?" As he spoke, there was a lot of commotion. A destroyer-transport had come alongside, put a big packing case into a sling, sent it over to the Missouri. It was the saddle...
...murders Rose Hobart, his wife, for love of Alexis Smith, her younger sister, only to find that Miss Smith has no use for him. In the course of describing just how his wife looked when he last saw her, he makes a single mistake that punctures his otherwise airtight alibi. Since mystery-hardened cinemaddicts can hardly fail to miss his slip, it becomes much too clear, from there on, how and by whom he is being brought to justice. The method: to make him believe that his wife is still alive, by leaving her perfume fresh in their bedroom...