Word: staines
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...year Valenti came to Hollywood. "It's about a man who has a conflict between his conscience and his king," he told the Reporter, "between what he believes and what his government wants him to do. Because he had such strong convictions, he was willing to die rather than stain his convictions." Valenti insisted the film "has relevance today," but apparently saw no contradiction between the role of a 16th century martyr and that of a 20th century lobbyist...
...adds as much as 20% to the cost of the cement.) Cover 15% of the exposed surfaces of a city like Milan, Borgarello estimates, and you could cut pollution in half. And as a bonus, TX helps buildings stay whiter than white by resisting the pollutants that scar and stain cement over time. It's a benefit that's visible in the first structure to use TX cement, the 2003 Dives in Misericordia church in Rome by the architect Richard Meier, who is famous for his white buildings and who likes to see them stay that...
...Harvard students not only regularly pull all-nighters for papers or parties, but we also boast aggressively to each other about how little sleep we need. Relative degrees of lack of sleep constitute a main stain of Harvard casual conversation—something we can all “understand.” Peers, professors, and club leaders can sometimes reinforce this culture further by expecting top-notch work, accepting only grave illness as a reason for lateness or inadequate quality...
...That interpretation raised wry smiles in Westminster, where cynical voices speak of the Prime Minister's last dash to secure his legacy by removing some of the stain of Iraq before he leaves office later this year. Defense experts also point to criticisms leveled last October by General Sir Richard Dannatt, then only six weeks into his new job as Chief of the General Staff. Britain should "get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems. We are in a Muslim country, and Muslims' views of foreigners in their country are quite clear," said Britain's most...
...ancestry, however remote. This is the infamous one-drop rule, invented and imposed by white racists until the middle of the 20th century. As with so many other areas of ethno-racial relations, African Americans turned this racist doctrine to their own ends. What to racist whites was a stain of impurity became a badge of pride. More significantly, what for whites was a means of exclusion was transformed by blacks into a glorious principle of inclusion. The absurdity of defining someone as black who to all appearances was white was turned on its head by blacks who used...