Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agnew's allies could perhaps be forgiven if, as John Ehrlichman described the White House treatment of Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray, they suspected the Vice President was being allowed to twist slowly, slowly in the wind...
...pinball machines and devotes most of the profits from them to hooking ghetto children on heroin, but even if this is true I suspect that he was also influenced by the amount on money he had lost playing pinball the week before. So maybe the cat was finally forgiven his trespass, but that was later...
Those who knew Janis Joplin only from her records can be forgiven for wondering quite what the fuss was about. It could not be communicated fully on records-the burning lava flow of energy raising audiences to their feet and into the aisles. But for those who saw her perform even once, it was not easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous...
...this perhaps might have been forgiven if De Roulet had displayed even modest talents of discretion. But that seemed beyond him, as he made all too clear to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee on multinational corporations a fortnight ago. De Roulet claimed in a public hearing that he had made a "deal" with Jamaica's new and progressive Prime Minister Michael Manley, 49, before last year's election. In exchange for a personal guarantee that Manley would not nationalize the U.S.-owned bauxite industry, De Roulet said, he had promised not to intervene in the elections. Manley promptly...
...author of a novel as good as Thomas Berger's Little Big Man is not soon forgiven. That marvelous saddlebag full of lies from the Old West was too crankily individualistic for the kind of discreet repetition that is the basis of a successful literary career. Yet anything short of a second Little Big Man is likely to be waved fretfully away by Berger's most devoted admirers...