Word: pardoner
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...spirits, with ice-"crocs on the rocks"-thrush snaking my thirst in a swallow. Delicious. Pity I had no horse d'oeuvre. Such a stag party may never be held again. On the otter hand, I wonder wether the savoir-fare of your report could be repeated? Please pardon my chick in asping, but to meat my wish, please: moa, moa! Tiger best you can, hmhm...
...exaggerated. The Minister of Law and Order has received extra-constitutional powers from Smith to hold anyone suspected of such treason in prison indefinitely without trial. And the Rhodesian government continues to demand the death penalty for two Africans accused of attempted arson although they have already received royal pardon. This is not yet a mood of acquiesence...
...order Danish pastry in Copenhagen and people will shrug their shoulders in dismay. They call it Vienna bread. Ask for vichyssdise in Vichy: until recently the French waiter said blankly, "Pardon?" And why should he know? It was invented in 1917 by Louis Diat, the chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel to take advantage of all those extra potatoes...
Last week, on the entreaties of three Senators and 34 Congressmen, all from the South-but none from Alabama-President Johnson gave a full pardon to Boykin. He is now 80, and after all those lovin' years has an ailing heart...
...facetiousness his "last tooloose-Lowrytrek," he wrote a British friend: "I have, since being here, been in prison three times. Everywhere I go I am pursued and even now, as I write, no less than five policemen are watching me. This is the perfect Kafka situation but you will pardon me if I do not consider it any longer funny . . . There is a church here for those who are solitary and the comfort you obtain from it is non-existent though I have wept many times there . . . Incidentally I smell...