Word: condonement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your duty and obligations to the laboring men of this country who belong to your union?" Beck's rare-roast-beef face turned an even deeper shade, his head shot forward, his lips moved as he shaped an outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove a swift knuckle into the small of Beck's back. Three times Beck started to answer; three times Condon's knuckle dug into his spine. Beck soon developed a sort of Pavlov's-dog response to the knuckle-every time he felt it, he automatically began...
...four judges hearing the case, Chief Justice Edmund W. Flynn and Justice Francis B. Condon, both Democrats, were elected to the Supreme Court during Rhode Island's infamous "Bloodless Revolution of 1935." That year, when Republican candidates narrowly won two disputed senate seats to give the G.O.P. a 22-to-20 control of the state senate, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Robert E. Quinn refused to administer oaths to the two close Republican victors. This left the senate in a 20-to-20 tie, which Quinn broke with his own vote, to order a closed, Democratic-controlled recount of the contested...
...Embittered Hungarian refugees and Free Democratic Party papers took up the cry. Said Bonn's Freies Wort: "Irresponsible promises of help and aggressive propaganda of RFE carry a good part of the blame for the blood bath in Hungary." At RFE's Munich headquarters, European Director Richard Condon denied the charges: "In no broadcast did RFE incite to armed revolt or indulge in cheap, inflammatory propaganda. In no broadcast was the promise of active help by the West given...
Brother Matthew (ABC-Paramount). Some mighty earthy jazz by Dixielanders Eddie Condon & Co., featuring the fanciful but funky alto saxophone of Brother Matthew of the Servite Order (TIME, March 5). Until 1953 the star was noted as Boyce Brown of Chicago, a onetime intimate of legendary Jazzman Frank Teschemacher, himself so rarely recorded as to be a near legend...
...difference between bop and Dixieland musicians, Jazzman Eddie Condon once cracked, is that bop men flat their fifths, whereas Dixielanders drink theirs...