Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nepszava, trade union newspaper, pleaded that the general pardon, now extended by Defense Minister Karoly Janza to all who capitulated, be extended to "Soviet soldiers who had come over to the people"-indicating where the Soviet leaders' fundamental weakness might...
...underwent three trials for murder; each time he was condemned to death. When Diem refused to pardon him, Ba Cut asked to be shot like a soldier. One night last week 32-year-old Ba Cut wrote a farewell letter, asking his parents to care for the innumerable children of his nine wives. Then, before dawn, he was driven in an army truck to Cantho cemetery. Dressed in black, his waist-length hair now cut short, Ba Cut was led to the place of execution. Only then did he discover that his plea for a firing squad had been rejected...
...They may repress a shudder at saying "Cheers" when drinking, but they will flatly refuse to say the non-U "God bless!" They do not "take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior of a non-U person in that the latter has appreciated the difference between U and non-U, e.g., 'The guard was certainly very civil...
Harrassed by late returnees begging pardon, the dorm keeper blasted his reply to the fake note, saying that real McCoy notes would be handwritten in the future...
...their sleepy-eyed occupants, except for one whom they use as a decoy in crossing over to their unbelieving buddies. Steiner is made a sergeant on the spot and gets a furlough, but all he and his men have really won is a brief reprieve, not a full pardon from death. The whole crumbling German front is itself a rearguard desperately parrying Russian advances and encirclements...