Word: uncleane
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...bruised and put-upon Alihodja sounds the elegiac theme of Andrić's book. He watches gloomily as the bustling Austrians destroy the "sweet tranquillity" of Visegrad. They busily replace the outmoded fountains with new " 'unclean' water which passed through iron pipes so that it was not fit to drink"; they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian...
...first moment, turn away from unclean thinking-at the first moment...
...champion of keen teens throughout the land, and knows what is good for today's youth and what is not. Just where do you think those kids would have been if they hadn't been rocking at Mr. Freed's show? Out hanging on street corners thinking unclean thoughts, etc., that's where...
...Phillips' summonses. Last week Randy Phillips himself got swatted. He not only lost a court fight over his campaign to win a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad's board but also took a tongue lashing from Federal Judge C. William Kraft Jr., who said that Phillips' "unclean hands bar the grant of any equitable relief...
...swimming, ice cream, fun and games in the country. But the elders of Mea Shearim began turning up after morning prayers at the truckers' parking lots to yell "Shabbes" (Yiddish for Sabbath) at the holiday makers, often adding such insults as "sons of whores, abominations, unclean creatures." Last month Jerusalem saw a wave of violence, with orthodox Jews stopping cars and roughing up their occupants or beating up those seen smoking publicly on the Sabbath...