Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspirational? One Americanism that irritates him, he told reporters, is the word hospitalized. "If a man is hospitalized, what is he when he is cured? De-hospitalized? Homeized?" He deplored the tendency to substitute alibi for excuse, called the phrase bi-partisan foreign policy absurd because it could only mean "doubly partisan." And what, he added, do Americans mean by inspirational-inspired or inspiring...
...Goodenough of the American made the most outspoken approval of Jordan. In a "Letter to President Pusey," he declared, "Jordan is a real man; he's not a moaner or alibi artist as are some of his contemporaries.... If this fine coach is removed, it will be a disgrace to the University and to Harvard football....Why not get some players instead? Or why not drop football entirely...
...boasted" about G.O.P. fund-raising for Estes Kefauver. In Manhattan Tex McCrary explained that he had merely commented at a private dinner: "I hear some Republicans helped Kefauver in Minnesota." Tut-tutted Kefauver: "Mr. Stevenson, of course, knows nothing of any Republican money. Apparently he is building up alibi...
...Irked by the advance alibi making of some of the critics who fear that Russia's state-subsidized athletes may whip the U.S.'s expense account amateurs at the Olympics in Australia next November, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage, world's No. 1 defender of pure amateurism, sounded off. "Champions are not made by subsidies or training camps but by diligence and intelligence ... It is not the strength of other people that we in the U.S. need fear. It is our national complacency ... If Russian success in the Olympic games arouses us ... it will serve...
...Absolutely No Alibi." Not until a few days before the primary did either side sense that Kefauver was gaining. Only two days before the primary, Governor Freeman predicted that Stevenson would win by "somewhere between a two-to-one and a three-to-one majority." A day before the vote, Stevenson-lining Columnist Doris Fleeson wrote: "If Stevenson loses or is badly damaged, he has absolutely no alibi...