Word: frame-up
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Whenever newsreel cameras and microphones appeared, Judy made the same little speech: "I'm innocent of all charges. I'm a victim of a horrible, horrible frame...
...frame-up, Judy cried...
...credit to a pond full of Donald Ducks. They danced, shouted and demanded a week's time to prepare briefs. One attorney made 13 separate motions. Defendant Eugene Dennis (who is acting as his own attorney) railed against the court's "outrageous and arbitrary ruling" and bawled "frame-up" and "mockery of justice...
...used the frontal attack. After a Negro was convicted of raping a white woman and condemned to death, the Guide decided he was innocent. It defied local custom by printing the woman's name. A white man read the story, gave testimony that proved the case was a frame...
...Stalin statement was, therefore, far from a grandiose gesture in the direction of solving the cold war. It was a very clever frame-up, and in spite of Secretary Acheson's reasoned reply, it made the United States look like a villain to many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...