Word: pardon
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...feeling of disgust came over me as I looked at the smirking face of John Walker Jr. [NATION, Nov. 11]. For his treason he should never be granted pardon or parole. William T. Brockman Atlanta...
When players were players and even agents were agents, the Bears had Red Grange and Cash & Carry Pyle. Other names are like trumpets sounding. Bronko Nagurski. Bulldog Turner. George McAfee. Sid Luckman. (If you'll pardon a sentimental addition, Willie Galimore. He even sounded like running.) Later: Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus. People say the Bears are 22 seasons between championships, but 1963 was so momentary and illusory that it seemed more of a flashback than a turnaround, a memory of glory in the midst of a 40-year desperation that, almost no matter what happens in New Orleans this...
...like nearly any other career politician, Villaraigosa comes with baggage: he lost the 2001 mayoral election after it was revealed he had written the Clinton White House seeking a pardon for a convicted cocaine dealer, whose father had requested Villaraigosa's help. In this year's campaign he returned $47,000 in questionable donations from employees--and their relatives--of two Florida companies with direct and indirect interests in shops at Los Angeles International Airport...
SENATOR KERRY: This nomination is shameful, pardon my French...
...were to step on Wallace Shawn's foot, he would probably beg your pardon. If you were to push ahead of him in line, he might offer to hold your briefcase. He is, in short, the round little guy with the slightly comical face you have seen in such movies as Manhattan and Lovesick, and he almost apologizes for having written Off-Broadway's newest hit, Aunt Dan & Lemon. "At the risk of sounding self-pitying, the project taxed my resources to the limit and sometimes beyond," he says. "It took more brains than I had, and to figure...