Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual ceremony, President Bush petted the seemingly uninterested bird and exercised his power of pardon, thus sparing one imposing tom the grim fate he might have known...
...really offer a cogent explanation for this gender gap. But this sociological imbalance was duly noted by my friends and me, and we played the gum card (pardon the pun) for all it was worth, finding it a relatively effortless method of currying favor with the females...
...sexual encounter in Vox is the very opposite of another contemporary landmark of literary eroticism, the zipless sex of the '70s. Erica Jong's cheesy fiction offered a New Age pardon for the grunting libido of genital-to- genital sex. Zipless meant voiceless. Vox, by contrast, is the ultimate in '90s safe sex: voices, not hands, caress each other as Baker teases out a rambling romp of a conversation followed by simultaneous masturbatory climaxes between partners thousands of miles away...
Countless odes have been sung to Jordan's uncanny, unearthly, preternatural ability to defy gravity. Rightly so, for airborne wizardry is what makes Jordan the apotheosis of the playground player, the supreme performer who unites hard-court fundamentals with the improvisational creativity of the blacktop. Pardon the pretentiousness, but Jordan's artistry fuses the classic and the romantic...
Winnie Mandela, however, is free on minimal bail -- roughly $70 -- and pursuing an appeal that could take many months to be decided. Even if she loses, there is some speculation that State President F.W. de Klerk will pardon her rather than jail the wife of his main partner in negotiations to shape a multiracial regime. That partner, A.N.C. deputy president Nelson Mandela, took a mild line. He expressed confidence that his wife's name would eventually be entirely cleared and said he would continue talking to De Klerk...