Word: granting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Perhaps we should grant Caryl Chessman a full pardon and deport him to Uruguay, or Brazil, or the Vatican, or London, where he is more fully appreciated. Perhaps they would like to have Governor Brown also...
...deathwatch cell 15 paces from the door of the gas chamber -Brown received a State Department telegram advising him that the government of Uruguay was gravely concerned about the possibility of demonstrations protesting Chessman's execution when President Eisenhower visited Uruguay in early March. Brown promptly decided to grant a 60-day reprieve (TIME...
...always public-relations smooth. His rude lecturing on the evils of the multi-party state irked India's multi-party Parliament, and his arrogant boasts that Soviet aid is purely altruistic, whereas Western loans always have strings attached, provoked Nehru to comment that nations grant aid to other nations "on the ground of enlightened self-interest." In Indonesia, Khrushchev hurt President Sukarno's pride in his country's culture by walking out halfway through a Balinese dance, and the two men-though finding each other useful-were obviously uncongenial. One mealtime exchange showed their feelings...
...Grant Moves South, Catton...
...Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. Grant's astonishing evolution from a faltering, fear-stricken officer in his first Civil War battles to a masterful commander two years later, told with the author's customary skill...