Word: alibis
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...asked for corroboration, Sedov offered three other explanations in quick succession : 1) there were too many papers already; 2) it would have been given if the author had been on hand; and 3) there were not enough Russian scientists present to discuss it. He chuckled merrily at each new alibi...
...Cowardly Alibi. But the occasion had left a bad taste all around. Since then, newspapers have taken to criticizing Nehru with a new bluntness; old opponents use stronger language. Seemingly oblivious, Nehru in January rammed through a series of resolutions to socialize Indian agriculture, calling for a limit on land ownership and the formation of cooperatives in India's 600,000 villages within three years (an impossible timetable that would require the founding of 500 cooperatives...
Many of the Congressmen who obediently voted for Nehru's resolutions insisted privately that they were against them. The Times of India labeled the plan a "distribution of poverty," and Frank Moraes, well-known editor of the Indian Express, called it "a cowardly alibi for collectivism." Critics raised the specter of farm collectives and feared India was headed toward the "communes" of Red China. Nehru at first railed at these "phantom fears," then grew more bitter, finally snapped: "Well, if it comes to Communism...
...clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide him with an alibi, he could see the flames dancing in his rear-view mirror...
...this crisis recreates the conflicts of the murder ("You're not that cruel, Judd....I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid for you"). But after the chatter between the cops, the reporter and his girl, Judd, Artie, and "Mumsie," and a destruction of the boy's alibi that has more resemblance to a college dean discovering who set off the stink-bomb in Chemistry, the movie happily surrenders to Mr. Welles...