Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, the trip involved considerable research in French nightclubs and sunbathing in Greece in company with two young female aides. Powell's headline-making, who-cares manner of junketing called into criticism the whole system of congressional travels-and it was this that was not forgiven...
...wavering would have brought collapse. Limited and alone though I was, I had to climb to the heights and never then to come down. (1940, describing his wartime leadership) Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. Aloofness, character, and the personification of greatness, these qualities it is that surround with prestige those who are prepared to carry a burden which is too heavy for lesser mortals...
...bestselling novel of all time is, ironically, a bitter attack on the most sacred event in Mexican history: the 1910 Revolution. It takes an exceptional writer to go against his native grain and still be popular. But Mariano Azuela wrote The Underdogs with such unsparing honesty that he was forgiven his iconoclasm. Few novels have so fiercely proclaimed that war, revolution included, is hell...
...strapping pro football player, decides that a romp with this animated side of beef would give her a new outlook on life. The romp turns into a beery rout, and she wriggles home to drink champagne linked-elbows style with her still uncuckolded mate. Shel ley Winters is forgiven by her husband; Claire Bloom takes pills; and Zimbalist manages to defrost Miss Fonda...
Concluded Eccles: "We must get down to the job of preserving common meanings and standards of purity for the English language. If we fail, we shall not be forgiven for our foolish negligence...