Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant titles hinging on the outcome of today's game. Both teams have miserable records, Yale winning three times in seven starts, and Harvard winning but once in eight tries. And yet it is the game which makes or breaks a season; for the side that wins, all is forgiven. This is why 60,000 patrons will be present...
...ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind in the [South Carolina...
...What we are hearing (if we hear anything at all) is something of far less dramatic import-a sort of airborne Agony Column, with a dash of the Court Circular thrown in: 'Will M'Bongo please return from the yampatch. All is forgiven . . .' 'Is there a witch doctor in the kraal?' 'The chief's brother-in-law, a person of the noblest character, will arrive tomorrow...
...know the value of good books ... of Latin, and algebra . . . may be forgiven if we sometimes show just a little irritation when the 'traditional' subjects are made the scapegoat, by implication at least...
This week, with baseball's vulnerable "reserve clause" contracts (TIME, Feb. 21) still under fire and $2,800,000 in law suits pending, Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler told the prodigals that all was forgiven. All 18 were reinstated to the clubs they played for three years ago. Said Lanier, eager to get back with the Cardinals, whom he was suing for $1,500,000: "I'm delighted . . . but I won't give up my original case against the people who tossed me out of baseball...