Word: frame-up
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Mother Duncan, already in jail for the fraudulent annulment, was led from her cell and charged-along with Baldonado and Moya-with murder. Angrily, she denied all, called the whole thing a frame-up to hurt her Frank. Frank himself hid under an assumed name in a Hollywood apartment until the cops tracked him down. Then he scarcely grieved over his dead wife and unborn child. But he was shocked and shaken by his mother's plight. Said he: "I could never recall mother doing anything cruel. She would have to be insane to be linked into...
...Forest Frame...
...arrival in Paris before the plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo of a grinning Lindy and the caption, WELL, I MADE IT. He "exposed" the Atlantic City beauty contest as a "frame-up." thereby pushing the total libel suits filed against the Graphic to $12 million. When the treasurer complained wistfully, Gauvreau cracked: "Take it out of my salary...
Insisting to the last that the whole ugly business was a frame-up engineered by disgruntled Czarist émigrés, officials at the Soviet embassy in London came reluctantly to the conclusion that British justice could not be sidetracked. As Olympic Discus Thrower Nina Ponomareva doggedly practiced pushups for six weeks in an embassy bedroom, they maintained with stolid poker faces that in Russia no one is dragged to court until he is proved guilty. In Britain, the Foreign Office explained patiently, things are different: there it is considered the court's function to determine innocence or guilt...
...discussed giving money to Harvey Matusow, the professional witness and chronic liar who declared that he had not told the truth about Communist activities. On other counts-to the effect that Hughes was lying when he depicted Rauh not as a dupe but an accomplice in his unsuccessful frame-up of McCarthy-the jury was "hopelessly deadlocked...