Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a rifle and marched off. Car horns brayed; a band came out of a restaurant, and somebody organized a snake dance. Before the celebration broke up at 3:45 a.m., the police had arrested seven men-three for drunkenness, four for disorderly conduct. "Any Milwaukeean ought to be forgiven, because last night was a night to remember," said Judge Robert Hansen next day. "Case dismissed...
...institutions (Groucho Marx materializes as Jayne's first love). Actress Mansfield, a comic genius whenever she plays Jayne Mansfield, slithers into the skintight role of Jayne Mansfield. If the fun bogs slightly and if some of the gags have family reunions in the end, Director Tashlin may be forgiven for too-muching his good thing. Hollywood has every right to try beating its rival's antennas with TV's own fallen torch...
...Judiciary Committee blandly concluded that Hodja Boyar "spoke in a moment of religious ecstasy and should be forgiven," and it seemed foregone that the entire Assembly would next agree. But when the motion reached the floor, it ran into eloquent and unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished...
Sailing for Europe, Novelist John (The Short Reign of Pippin IV) Steinbeck did not yet know the happy news: the state of Oklahoma, which fussed and fumed at his portrait in The Grapes of Wrath of poverty-stricken Okies fleeing their drought-struck land, had at last forgiven him. After Steinbeck told an ABC-TV interviewer that "I've spoken against dust and I've spoken against poverty, but never against Oklahoma," Oklahoma's Governor Raymond Gary named him a member of the Governor's Staff of Oklahoma Boosters...
...bought her drinks, and "a man who'd let a young girl get stocious drunk is almost as bad as a fornicator.'' Soon, the school knows, and the writing is on the jakes wall for Dev. Yet-most horrible touch of all-Dev is forgiven, and it is put about that "nothing" has happened. "If it wasn't so pitiful, it would be funny," says Una in an exact summary of the book itself. It is Dev's tragedy to remain a man among boys and a boy among...