Word: forgiven
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Outsiders could be forgiven a certain skepticism. No merger of Arab states has yet worked for long. Enough have been attempted: Syria alone has tried to unite, at one time or another, with Egypt, Libya and Iraq, and all such efforts have ended in failure. Moreover, few details of the new merger have been agreed upon. So far the new partnership has no name, no head of state, no constitution, no joint institutions, no capital city. Nonetheless, Syria's Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam was dispatched to Saudi Arabia and five other Arab states to seek their blessing...
After Jimmy was elected President, he turned management of the business over to Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo. Says a friend of Billy's: "That really hurt Billy because the whole world was calling him incompetent. He's never forgiven Jimmy...
...designed to help bring about an American resurgence. On the contrary: they can only help thrust America back upon itself and thus ultimately hurt Europe. If, through arrogance or fear or misjudgment, Europe's leaders were to count America out too soon, they would not be readily forgiven in the U.S. - nor, perhaps ultimately, in their own countries. &$151;By Henry Grunwald
...starter has always intoned the imperative: "Gentlemen, start your engines." Umpires immemorially have shouted: "Play ball!" Runners have forever been instructed: "On your mark, set, go!" But when the horses reached the starting gate for the 112th running of the Belmont Stakes, Track Caller Marshall Cassidy could have been forgiven if he were tempted to mix phrases...
...lieutenant's wooing of a hardened but unhappy gangster. Their love causes Bill Cracker to fall afoul of the gang's sinister leader, the Fly, and results in Sister Lillian's expulsion in disgrace from the Army. Through a series of predictable and improbable coincidences, all are reunited and forgiven, and the two camps join hands to form an army of the poor to fight the "real enemy"--capitalism...