Word: pardons
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...people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...
Liston says he knew that only the executive board can legitimately pardon absences, making Sayeed's excuses invalid...
Speaking to an audience of 550 at the Kennedy School of Government, Menem asked the crowd to pardon his lack of humility in describing his own contributions to Argentina's progress...
Others recall a sweeter side. Lulu Washington sells discount candy out of her house, just across from Yummy's. "He just wanted love," she says. For that, he could be disarmingly kind. "He'd say thank you, excuse me, pardon me." He loved animals and basketball and had a way with bicycles. He once even merged two bikes into a single, working tandem. Those were the good times. "It always meant trouble when he was with a group," says Ollie Jones- Edwards, 54. "If he was alone, he was sweet as jelly...
Jimmy Carter, who without the Nixon apocalypse and pardon by Ford probably never would have been President, came quietly to the rain-soaked green below Nixon's coffin. His presence was his testimony, going beyond old denunciations and bitter assessments. Carter carries the memory of going on that presidential mission to Sadat's funeral and at first feeling uncomfortable about being on the same plane as Nixon. But they surveyed each other warily in the confines of the fuselage, then self-consciously greeted and sat down and talked genially about foreign policy. In a moment they had become sort...