Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized man took a civilized...
...against the wall, and then used the jagged remnant to tear out Louise Pickering's throat? The police had charged Charles Day Terry, 17, who worked as a dishwasher at Pickering's restaurant and who had twice been confined to mental institutions. Terry claimed an unusual alibi: he had been buying marijuana in Annapolis on the night of the murder. He said he had been mugged in the process, and that was why there was blood on his shirt...
...couple of Saturdays ago, after a Cabinet meeting, the President wandered over to the Alibi Club on I Street, a narrow and shadowy enclave of 50 of the city's powerbrokers. He went without the usual army of photographers. He did not hold court once he was inside...
...compromise Washington's neutral stance on the Persian Gulf war, thereby enraging Iraq and dismaying its pro-American supporters in the war with Iran -Saudi Arabia and Jordan. At worst, such a quid pro quo might be construed by Moscow as direct U.S. interference and thus provide an alibi for an expanded Soviet role in the conflict...
...delves through Theo's journals and his own memories of their abutting lives, Narrator Stern etches a bleak chronicle of loneliness and lust, punctuated with quiet irony. Stern notes the perennial alibi of the spy: treachery is excusable because it is always performed in the name of humanity. The excuse is held up to the light and found "curiously selective, since few spies seem disposed to share their thefts with anybody but the Soviet Union...