Word: alibis
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...Alibi. In January 1949, when he became Secretary after a brief interim with his old Washington law firm Acheson therefore inherited some of the policies and problems which he had helped create. Although he might have preferred to turn his back on the East, he was prodded into facing it. Gingerly he measured the problem of Asia, which by this time was well on the way to becoming an immeasurable disaster...
...Into the Frying Pan. In Long Island City, N.Y., Salvatore La Scala was acquitted of robbery on an alibi: at the time of the robbery he was in Brooklyn running errands for his employer, a bookie...
...Cleveland Press (circ. 293,690), Ohio's biggest daily newspaper, agreed with the court. Said the Press: "Freedom of the press is too important a bulwark of our way of life to be dragged in as an alibi for trying to get rid of a competitor . . . Freedom of the press, is ... not an excuse for selfish or arrogant behavior...
...shares, is the largest stockholder) as long as the line owed the banks a dollar. He adopted a policy of gathering the line's executives together at semiannual meetings and hazing them unmercifully as they reported. Sample: "Now that's a hell of an alibi, if I ever heard one ... By comparison with what we know could be done, we smell to high heaven. Now put this on your Must List . . . memories are awfully short, especially yours...
Then for 20 minutes Dr. Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, fiftyish, principal of Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education...