Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pardon, uncle, but you do me injustice. The CRIMSON doesn't come out during the Christmas season. But indeed sir, before you can start your gruel on the morning of January 5, it will be back...
...also made a quick trip to the United States Military Academy at West Point. On arrival he was told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made...
...Pardon. He pointed at Porterfield's carbine and yelled: "Is that thing loaded?" "No, sir," said the guardsman. "Well, son," said Reed happily, hauling out his .38, "mine is. Get going, you're under arrest...
...this grating contradiction-and evident flashes of German insolence-might prove to be less important than the fact that the Communists had not been able to prevent the beginnings, however tenuous, of democracy in Germany. "I hope you'll pardon us for a lot of this talk," one German politician recently told an American official, "but in political campaigns such talk is quite necessary, nicht...
...attack on the newspaper, President Perón said: "I hope La Prensa will pardon this digression, which is after all only one small comment, whereas it publishes articles against me every day of the year." Next day La Prensa printed his speech without comment...