Word: alibis
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...went around the corner to a bar and waited till it came on the TV news at 11. I said, "Christ, they killed my best friend." I was pretending like I was crying, and guys are coming over to me. Everybody hated this guy. But this was my alibi. See, people in the bar said I'd been there all night. Fifty people would have sworn that I was there since 8 o'clock...
...will be missed for two reasons. First, as one senior Commission civil servant put it, "Margaret Thatcher was the good enemy," meaning that tirades brought the E.C. public attention and gave it importance. Her opposition to European integration put it on the front pages. Second, Thatcher served as an alibi for other member governments that did not dare openly question E.C. President Jacques Delors's pressure for a quick-step march toward a supranational European government...
...trial centered on the accuracy of those memories -- more than four decades later -- as well as the validity of a German-issued identity card supplied by the Soviet Union. Though Teicholz persuasively unravels Demjanjuk's alibi (he claims he was a German prisoner of war at the time), the author handles the task a bit too eagerly, often telling the reader what to make of the evidence, which piles up "like the corpses in the pit." In fact, some observers express lingering doubts about whether Demjanjuk was really Ivan the Terrible...
Seizaburo Sato, a foreign policy analyst and adviser to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, agrees. "The talk of constitutional constraints ^ and demons of the past is all one big alibi," he says. "We mustn't miss a golden opportunity to prove we recognize our responsibilities...
...finals -- even though one of them jumped twice. Winner of the spirited annual commemoration of Mark Twain's yarn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Help Mr. Wizard, a homegrown Concord, Calif., bullfrog who jumped a quite respectable 19 ft. 3 in. The prize for the best alibi went to Koffman, who insisted that his big frogs, accustomed to the equatorial tropics, just got cold feet. Said he: "They're not used to the weather we've had here...