Word: uncleanly
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Dutch Reformed leaders, unmoved, accused De Blank of pointing "an unclean finger of accusation." It is proper, they said, for the whites to tell the African that they did not wish to accept him in their church, for it would not be fair to expect him to be an imitation of the whites. "Instead the Bantu should serve God in his own church," insisted one Dutch Reformed spokesman...
...reprisal, the unions declared him "untouchable"; any machinery he handled was "unclean." Men mutter curses as he passes, get up from the lunch table when he sits down. The management has shifted him to an isolated area, where he works on small, 30-lb. furnace doors that he can handle alone. And there he stays eight hours a day in bitter silence, finding relief only when he goes home at night to his wife and five children. Says he grimly: "I can stick it out as long as they...
...political patience was exhausted by the extralegal manner in which Segni's minority Christian Democratic government tiptoed out of office. Fortnight ago, outraged by President Giovanni Gronchi's humiliating visit to Moscow (TIME, Feb. 22) and convinced that the Christian Democrats were slipping toward an "unclear and unclean agreement" with Italy's big, Red-tainted Socialist Party, Italy's free-enterprising Liberals announced that their 18 Deputies would no longer support Segni. Since this meant that his government could survive only by accepting Fascist support, Segni resigned without even asking for a vote of confidence...
...Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out. Let moviemakers find sinister backdrops elsewhere...
...talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half-hour slices while preserving their familiarly sea-wallowing cadences: "And on the luster of the great calm waters, the Judea glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapors...