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Dirty Hands HOEDERER: . . . How you cling to your purity, young man! . . . You intellectuals . . . use it as a pretext . . . to do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your side, wearing kid gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbow. I've plunged them in filth and blood...
...companies are still fighting back. Because the bare book value of their property exceeds $60 million, they scoffed at the $22 million offered as indemnification by the government. They denounce the government's recently presented "bill" for $505 million in unaccounted-for foreign-exchange funds as a brazen pretext for outright confiscation. They have not accepted the government's invitation to negotiate indemnification which would include Patiño's U.S. minority stockholders. Their apparent strategy is to wait until the stoppage of tin sales-through unofficial world embargoes or through the U.S. Government's refusal...
...treaty conform to our Constitution? I say no ... All the provisions of this treaty work to put France in a position of inferiority." Herriot's specific objections: 1) under articles 12 and 13, the Germans, and all other nations, could withdraw troops from the joint army on the pretext of putting down domestic disturbances, while if France wanted to withdraw troops to send them to Morocco or Tunisia, she would have to ask permission of the European Command "like a minor"; 2) Article I: gives Germany the right to have a militia, like the paramilitary formations that were...
...debt, and makes it impossible for her to leave him. When Chester finally attains the top of the ladder, and she and Jim are middleaged, she gets a divorce and marries Jim at last. But now the shoe is on the other foot: old Nimmo, under the pretext of getting Nina's help with his memoirs, lays siege to her and carries the fort again & again. Even with Jim in a simmer of jealousy, she can't turn Chester away. At novel's end all three are living precariously together...
...came into power in 1949, however, the official attitude toward Protestants changed. Many Roman Catholic priests, worried by Protestant proselytizing, began to preach inflammatory sermons. Most of the Protestants also belonged to the overturned Liberal Party; some local government officials were happy to get at political foes under the pretext of religious fervor...