Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief executives are certain to be valuable assets to their state parties. In these days when corruption is ordinarily recognized only in governments long in power, most young state administrations are fairly popular. Governors needn't kiss babies to get publicity; every legislative message, highway dedication, school visit, or pardon for Killer Slazem is framed to make the governor appear benevolent and unselfish. The governor's access to publicity has allowed Dewey to use the Executive Mansion in Albany as a sounding board for the Eisenhower violin. It will soon reverberate a sweet, Democratic refrain...
...your pardon...
...Pardon me, there, young man, but ascertaining from your dress I should hazard an estimate that you matriculate at Harvard A & M, am I correct...
...hatred I respond with pardon. And to those who think they have defeated me I reply with victory. I was the slave of the people, and today I free myself for eternal life. But this people to which I was a slave will no longer be a slave to anyone. My sacrifice will remain forever in your soul, and my blood will be the price of your ransom...
...Pardon Me? McCarthy Committee Counsel Roy Cohn, on the witness stand, referred to a paper written by a former Communist that, he said, led to McCarthy's investigation of the Army. "Point of order," interjected McClellan, who had never seen the paper. "I want to know if it is a committee document." Astonished, Cohn blurted: "Pardon me?" and glanced toward McCarthy. "I am asking you, not Senator McCarthy," growled McClellan. Vaguely, Cohn answered: "The document was submitted to the staff, sir, and I submitted it to the chairman...