Word: pardoner
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...amnesty is not rehabilitation," he explained last week, "and not a pardon. It merely means to forget the past and let bygones be bygones...
...Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
Students not concentrating in any of these fields should make inquiries at the office of the Department concerned. Cuts taken on days of examinations are excused, but it is up to the scholar involved to secure at University 4 a written pardon for presentation to his instructor...
...Yeah, I saw them, two of them, riding fast, and suddenly a tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...
While in San Quentin Neil wrote a poem which was accepted by the Mother's Day League and wrote an appeal for pardon which brought tears to the board. He escaped, however, before he was pardoned. He is now in jail...