Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraged to hear on a shortwave broadcast that the U.S. had retaliated for a Viet Cong attack. However, the rest of the day the Voice of America appeared to be making excuses and apologies. Do we have to beg pardon every time we take action? Are the Viet Cong the enemy or not? Let's stop kidding ourselves, because we are not fooling anyone else...
...many, many of them were enjoying their work. They were getting their kicks (you should pardon the double entendre), as well as their revenge for the embarrassment of the 33-hour seige of Oct. 1-2 (the incident of the trapped police car). And the air of vindictiveness was unmistakable...
...Angeles Music Center: it is to be devoutly hoped that (excuse me) the new auditorium seating design (pardon me, sir) with its long rows of seats unbroken by aisles (I'm sorry, may I just get by here . . . thank you) will encourage those tiresome Los Angeles latecomers (oops, sorry!) to mend their ways and start arriving on time. (Pardon me, could you folks all move down one seat...
...this question, as every well-trained scriptwriter knows, there are four correct replies: 1) Allied commandos and/or Yugoslav partisans; 2) Sophia Loren disguised as a sack of Sicilian melons; 3) The Thing; 4) a gruesome crew of master criminals who have all been promised pardon if they will undertake a fantastically dangerous mission to knock the hit out of Hitler...
...Hinds. The libel suit involved different parties: Hinds v. Sparks, and only by coincidence was the robbery the key issue. Since it was the issue, however, Alfie managed to have himself found "innocent" in what laymen at least could view as a retrial. Whether he now deserves a pardon is up to Home Secretary Henry Brooke, who has a rare legal puzzle to solve...