Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking. How does it happen, asked Nehru, that Indian Communists are now selling Peking-printed maps that show 57,000 square miles of India's Assam, neighboring Burma, and Nehru's own ancestral Kashmir as districts of "People's China"? So sorry, replied Shen, with the alibi, that Red China has used before: just old maps. The date on the maps...
...young man is arrested for the murder of a rich spinster who had just made him her heir. His alibi is that he was at home when the murder was committed-which his wife will bear witness to. But at the trial the wife-who, it turns out, is not really his wife-repudiates his story. At this point things really start humming, but at this point must be enforced the First Commandment for whodunits: thou shalt not tell...
...includes not only this spectacle of a character in the making, but some really rare Vincent Price. His hulking form minces about as he plays a repellent playboy and he does very well by his part. Posturing, he simpers to the tough detective by way of explaining an erratic alibi, "I'm the unconventional type...
...boiled beef and bread. "This is as good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said. And from a pretty quarter, he got a pretrial assist. Cinemactress Alida Valli, a onetime sojourner in Hollywood (The Third Man), announced what she considered to be an alibi for Piero. Two days before Wilma Montesi's body was found, she said, Piero had been with her, Alida, and then had gone home with a bad cold...
...dropped Wilson, returned early to carouse with friends. "You've got a fast horse and a long loop, sheriff," said Tom Holland, "but you've got the wrong man this time." There were no other suspects in sight, but several trial witnesses supported Holland's alibi. Last week came the jury's verdict: not guilty...