Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy that the doctors have given me at least a parole, if not a pardon, and I expect to be back at my accustomed duties, although they say I must ease my way into them and not bulldoze my way into them...
Help came from, of all places, Belgium and the U.S. Navy. Prince Albert of Belgium, in the U.S. as the Navy's guest, paid a courtesy call at West Point and exercised the traditional royal prerogative to request a pardon for all cadets under punishment. The amnesty freed Zeigler, and raised the odds to even money that Army would...
...Guaranteed Annual Pardon." Collective-bargaining sessions were arranged. Top negotiator for the state was Dr. Thomas A. Harris, former professor of psychiatry at the University of Arkansas, who became Washington's director of institutions less than a month ago. Within 20 hours after the conferences began, the prisoners had won all of their key demands : 1) a promise that prison authorities will try to circumvent a state law providing special punishment for rioting or holding hostages, 2) transfer from "the hole," 3) establishment of an inmate council, 4) a survey of parole practices and an annual review of sentences...
...another: "We should go in there and shake the place down on the pay ($328 monthly maximum) we get?" But finally the guards went back in, and the prison went back to the control of the state. Said one guard: "They gave 'em everything but a guaranteed annual pardon...
Einstein disliked the ballyhoo, but over the years he learned to make use of it. From his pedestal he occasionally poked a finger into worldly affairs. In the '30s he asked the Polish government to pardon draft dodgers. In the '50s he urged "the little minority of intellectuals" to refuse to testify before congressional committees, on the grounds that "it is shameful for a blameless citizen to submit to such an inquisition...