We ordered a couple of shots and a couple of cortados and sat by the narrow, unglazed arch that overlooked the reservoir. 'To Yvan,' he declared, and I raised my aguardiente to his, chinking glasses to the insincere memory of [Yvan].
He wrote simple, unmetaphoric sentences.
An early CIA decision was to bring war surplus in Europe to the United States, rather than let it fall into the hands of left-wing movements. Some of the guns would also, it was reasoned, be useful as sterile weapons (foreign-made and untraceable to the United States) to be provided secretly to foreign friends.
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Diſappointed in this endeavour, undiſguſted by the petulance of oppoſition, unwearied by the ſtubbornneſs of faction, We have ſeen Him [George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot] labour to ſecure, at leaſt, the political advantages held forth by the reſtoration of the Rajah [Thuljaji, the Rajah of Tanjore].
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