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Word: pardoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contact with his German masters. But he also made a call from a pay telephone to a British official. Eddie explained that he had been parachuted in by the Germans, and described his mission, but said he wanted to work for England. Brashly, he named his price-a full pardon for all his safecrackings, and permission to keep the ?2,000 the Germans had supplied him with. The British accepted his terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Portrait of a Hero | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...European army, on which, at Bermuda, our allies watched the two French corks dancing? The crimes of personal life can be redeemed and erased, but not those of political life. Because it never stops, because it develops unceasingly in all directions and on all levels, history does not pardon the consequences of a deed once done nor does it pardon our evasions and our refusals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE TROUBLE WITH FRANCE | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Stockton. Captured in the wreckage of a stolen car, he was convicted of murder, robbery and burglary, all in the first degree. Judge Percy J. King recommended that he "remain in prison for the remainder of his natural life, and under no circumstances is he to be considered for pardon, parole or probation." "If it takes 20 years," Pedrini answered, "I'll come back and kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Moon-Gazers | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...trainers" who were unmistakably Iron Curtain cops and by Hungary's Vice Minister for Sport Gustav Sebec. the players were taken to a West End show for their first night in London. The object, said Vice Minister Sebec. was "to improve our English." He chose a revue called Pardon My French, advertised as "A Bust and Belly Epic . . . Girls with Sequins and Girls Without." ' Planned Initiative. Next day the Hungarians formally and proudly introduced their stars: shock-haired Joseph Bozsik, 28, the squad's right halfback, who is a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and Captain Ferenc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twilight of the Gods | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...great ones were careful to show no rancor. Bleyer kept his peace. La Rosa appealed to reporters as a mixed-up kid: "It was Mr. Godfrey who kept telling me I was humble and to stay that way . . . He kept harping on that humility thing . . . This guy-pardon me-Mr. Godfrey -Mr. Godfrey has one of the best shows on TV ... I was as close to him as I was to my father . . . My father used to hurt me sometimes when he'd hit me when I thought I shouldn't be hit, but I never stopped calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Humble or Nothing | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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