Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alibi. In January 1949, when he became Secretary after a brief interim with his old Washington law firm Acheson therefore inherited some of the policies and problems which he had helped create. Although he might have preferred to turn his back on the East, he was prodded into facing it. Gingerly he measured the problem of Asia, which by this time was well on the way to becoming an immeasurable disaster...
...defeated; they disintegrated." There was some opposition in the department to issuing the White Paper, and even Philip Jessup has since admitted that it was a highly irregular piece of diplomacy. The one reason for issuing it was to provide Acheson's State Department with an alibi for its share in China's tragic disaster...
...walks up & down, nervous as a cat, while I'm serving the other customer. Then, when the other guy's gone out, Kirkes says that the tracks near the body looked just like the tread of his car's tires. So he needs an alibi, and he tries to get me to say I sold him the liquor at 7:30 p.m. on the night of the murder. That isn't true...
...Into the Frying Pan. In Long Island City, N.Y., Salvatore La Scala was acquitted of robbery on an alibi: at the time of the robbery he was in Brooklyn running errands for his employer, a bookie...
...Cleveland Press (circ. 293,690), Ohio's biggest daily newspaper, agreed with the court. Said the Press: "Freedom of the press is too important a bulwark of our way of life to be dragged in as an alibi for trying to get rid of a competitor . . . Freedom of the press, is ... not an excuse for selfish or arrogant behavior...