Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy displayed his usual tendency to imply conclusions more sweeping than his facts warranted and he once, in referring to Stevenson, said, "Alger-pardon me-I mean Adlai," a McCarthy trick that he has used several times before...
There were three men talking in Parlor B. The door was open, but I could see none of the posters or stickers usually plastered on the walls of a campaign headquarters. I walked in, "Pardon me, but is this Independents for Kennedy." "No," said one of them. The three eyed me closely. "Well, wasn't it here?" A thick-set man, sitting on a couch answered. "We don't know anything about Independents for Kennedy...
...Codger. When the Sanitary Commission visited Lincoln, Strong found him "a barbarian, Scythian, yahoo, or gorilla in respect of outside polish," but also a man of "evident integrity and simplicity of purpose." From this visit Strong brought back a fine Lincoln story. Strong had asked Lincoln to pardon an imprisoned man. The papers for a pardon, replied Lincoln, "must be referred to the Attorney-General, but I guess it will be all right, for me and the Attorney-General's very chicken-hearted...
...London and Washington exchanged thousands of words on the subject, Iran continued to go steadily into the hands of the extremists. In Teheran, with the galleries screaming approval, the Majlis voted a full pardon to bearded Khalil Tahmassebi, the nationalist fanatic who murdered moderate, pro-Western Premier Ali Razmara in March 1951. Then, to the second most powerful post in Iran, president of the Majlis, it elected the Mullah Ayatullah Kashani, spiritual chief of the assassins. Extremist Kashani arranged the Nationalist-Red alliance that battered Qavam out of power and brought Mossadegh back (TIME, Aug. 4). He still fancies himself...
...lots of blowing cats [musicians] who have been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room and say, 'Pardon me, mother, while I have a fix!' Why don't people leave us alone...