Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have visions of John Lindsay, downtrodden and in rags, standing before the main gate of the Pentagon accosting the President as he enters and leaves: "Pardon me, Sir. Could you spare a little change... just a billion or two. My city is starving...
...people who go to the zoo all the time. I traveled for a while in Europe last summer with a boy and girl who went to every zoo they could. The first thing they would do in a new city was find out if there was a zoo. Pardon, mais onest...
...first the men did not dare step into the stream," one of the searchers recalled. "But the sun was going down and we finally entered the water, praying to the dead to pardon us." The men who were probing the shallow creek in a gorge south of Hue prayed for pardon because the dead had lain unburied for 19 months; according to Vietnamese belief, their souls are condemned to wander the earth as a result. In the creek, the search team found what it had been looking for-some 250 skulls and piles of bones. "The eyeholes were deep...
...case student restlessness. May is planning a curriculum reform project over the year with advisory committees in each House and Department. He plans to circulate, "if you'll pardon the Washington bar-room term, a series of program packages." May says that past innovations, like Gen-Ed and tutorials, have not been completely successful because they were considered piece-meal. "Tutorial as it operates now bears no resemblance to tutorial as we envisioned it. There were a series of economic compromises all along the line. May proposes to look at the curriculum on a larger scale, allowing consideration of more...
...eyes are medical eyes imported from Germany. Laffite was a well-respected pirate who was promised a lot of money by the British Navy in return for his helping them to attack New Orleans in 1814. He double-crossed the British and helped the Americans. That won him a pardon from the President of the United States. The crowd moves...