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  • It doesn't sound like much, but it is clearly a form of torture that should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention, even for use on SEALs.†   (source)
  • Never mind there's no shooting across the border in Pakistan, the illegality of the Taliban army, the Geneva Convention, yada, yada, yada.†   (source)
  • Annie had been in Amsterdam, then China, then Japan, then back to Geneva, and so hadn't had time to focus on Kalden, but the two of them had traded occasional messages about him.†   (source)
  • My name's Geneva Eggers.†   (source)
  • What about the Geneva Accords?†   (source)
  • They came from on high, from the people in charge of Peru's tb program, who had gotten them from Geneva, from the World Health Organization itself.†   (source)
  • My mom threatened me if I saw him outside of school, so going to Lake Geneva is a perfect place to hang out with him.†   (source)
  • When the story reached the offices of the World Health Organization in Geneva, the place went into a full-scale alert.†   (source)
  • You know as well as I do that the Army adheres to the Geneva Convention.†   (source)
  • She'd fallen in love with Ben's choreography and artistry and, despite the outrage of George Balanchine and the artistic director of her company in Geneva, she'd followed Ben to Houston.†   (source)
  • "Salut," Hoerni said finally, to a childhood friend from Geneva.†   (source)
  • In Europe the medics were unarmed, according to the Geneva Convention; the Germans usually would not stoop to shooting a corpsman.†   (source)
  • 'There's an international Polish sausage exchange in Geneva.†   (source)
  • He explained that the marble in the foyer had been imported from Italy and that the stained-glass windows had been crafted by an artisan in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Phillip Arden, the Geneva-bred son of a millionaire British mine owner and industrialist, looks up from his plate of pork chops with milky mystery gravy.†   (source)
  • Geneva isn't Zurich, said Tereza.†   (source)
  • Dates, diversions of materiel, banks in Geneva and Zurich-even the names of a half-dozen couriers routed out of Saigon-and worse.†   (source)
  • According to the Geneva Conventions, subjecting prisoners to sensory deprivation was classified as inhumane.†   (source)
  • Today he'd had a two-hour conference call with lawyers and clients in Hong Kong, Geneva, London and Sydney.†   (source)
  • According to linguist Geneva Smitherman of Michigan State University, bad-mouthing came from the West African language Mandingo: dajugu meant "slander, abuse," literally "bad mouth."†   (source)
  • After a pause, Alessandro said, "I was going to mock you, but the Rhone extends to Geneva, and bursts from Lac Leman full blown.†   (source)
  • The one called Geneva stole, for example, but Easter was dominant for what she was in herself-for the way she held still, sometimes.†   (source)
  • I was just talking about Geneva as a location.†   (source)
  • I knew nothing about the Geneva Convention.†   (source)
  • "The world changed yesterday," he wrote from Geneva to all of pih.†   (source)
  • Or, as it states in the pages of the Geneva Convention, unarmed civilians.†   (source)
  • I have a grant to study physics at the University of Geneva.†   (source)
  • "Twice a year," he said, "Christie's auction house has Faberge sales in Geneva.†   (source)
  • "I wouldn't tell anybody else about being in Geneva Eggers's house.†   (source)
  • Shortly after the Boston meeting, Jim Kim went to who headquarters in Geneva.†   (source)
  • I wasn't aware Geneva had a physics lab.†   (source)
  • "Pret' near dry," Geneva said, smoothing my pants.†   (source)
  • How did things go with everyone in Geneva?†   (source)
  • He'll hop on a plane and go anywhere to an auction—to New York, to London, to Geneva.†   (source)
  • Virtually nothing about Japan's use of POWs was in keeping with the Geneva Convention.†   (source)
  • He and Paul had just sent a young man to work at who in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Then he flew on to Geneva to attend a sale of Faberge.†   (source)
  • I followed Geneva's own footprints down the snowy path and found the outhouse at the end of it.†   (source)
  • I asked my commanding officer about it, and he said, 'This is not Geneva, this is Japan.'†   (source)
  • Five days before her ninth birthday, Vittoria moved to Geneva.†   (source)
  • He explained that twice a year he attended the international Faberge sales in Geneva.†   (source)
  • I looked for Geneva Eggers often after that as we went by, going and coming.†   (source)
  • "Geneva," Langdon repeated, feeling a little better.†   (source)
  • She attended Geneva International School during the day and learned from her father at night.†   (source)
  • Geneva found a plate and stacked the French toast on it and set it on the table.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw that Geneva had been watching me.†   (source)
  • There were weekends up on Lake Geneva with the VPs, with a chosen few of the best retailers.†   (source)
  • I don't often disagree with you, my love, but you were wrong in Geneva, wrong in Paris.†   (source)
  • I shall write out the name of a bank and the number of an account in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Phillip Arden is managing the family's money out of Geneva.†   (source)
  • Robert couldn't return with them because he had to go again to Geneva.†   (source)
  • Here, in Lake Geneva, it's easy to forget about home life for a while.†   (source)
  • She told him about high school in Geneva.†   (source)
  • I enjoy being strong, of course, he said, but what good do these muscles do me in Geneva?†   (source)
  • Word goes out in Amsterdam and Berlin, Geneva and Lisbon, London and right here in Paris.†   (source)
  • Nobody speaks again until we reach the outskirts of Lake Geneva.†   (source)
  • He got Grace to rummage in his bag for the presents he'd bought for them both in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Her departure from Geneva brought her considerably closer to it.†   (source)
  • … Would you care to buy a house on the lake in Geneva, Aleksei?†   (source)
  • Did he feel like phoning Sabina in Geneva?†   (source)
  • Going to Lake Geneva for the day on a double date is sure to be fun.†   (source)
  • If this works out the way I think it will, you can add to your account in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Forget the lousy house in Geneva, Kruppie, how about a mansion on the Black Sea?†   (source)
  • I had fun the day we all went to Lake Geneva.†   (source)
  • After four years in Geneva, Sabina settled in Paris, but she could not escape her melancholy.†   (source)
  • They confiscated my lovely house in Geneva!†   (source)
  • He made several telephone calls to Geneva.†   (source)
  • But then if Carlos decided to get rid of me, there would be no need for Geneva.†   (source)
  • Easter, as though she could be cold tonight, got into bed with Geneva.†   (source)
  • With Jinny Love upon her, Geneva sighed.†   (source)
  • If Easter's dead, I get her coat for winter, all right," said Geneva.†   (source)
  • There was Geneva, skirting behind a tree, but she never came close or tried to get in the game.†   (source)
  • Geneva like a little June bug hooked onto her back.†   (source)
  • The Boy Scout looked around and panted at Geneva.†   (source)
  • Geneva jumped so hard she fell off her cot.†   (source)
  • Geneva had pushed her to the very edge of the cot.†   (source)
  • AND HESTER AND I SPENT AN EVENING WITH YOUR GRANDMOTHER; WE WATCHED THE IDIOT BOX, OF COURSE, AND YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD YOUR GRANDMOTHER ON THE SUBJECT OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE—SHE SAID SHE'D BELIEVE IN THE 'NEUTRALITY' OF LAOS WHEN THE SOVIETS DECIDED TO RELOCATE ….†   (source)
  • I left the ax where it lay, clipped the rope, and followed Stuart down the steep flank of the Geneva Spur.†   (source)
  • By the way, if anyone should dare to utter the words Geneva Convention while I'm writing this, I might more or less lose control.†   (source)
  • Walt Unsworth Everest ifteen minutes after leaving the South Colon Sunday morning, May 12, I caught up to my teammates as they were descending from the crest of the Geneva Spur.†   (source)
  • Faced with the murderous cutthroats of the Taliban, we are not fighting under the rules of Geneva IV Article 4.†   (source)
  • As our despondent group filed slowly away from Camp Four toward the Geneva Spur, I braced myself to make one last visit to Beck, whom I assumed had died in the night.†   (source)
  • On September 25, as they were ascending from Camp Three to Camp Four to launch their summit assault, a slab avalanche engulfed Lopsang, another Sherpa, and a French climber just below the Geneva Spur and swept them down the Lhotse Face to their deaths.†   (source)
  • In Geneva once, I heard several of them refer to their tribe as "tb," in phrases such as "tb and HIV have to work together."†   (source)
  • The only aspect of the Geneva Convention that the Japanese sometimes respected was the prohibition on forcing officers to work.†   (source)
  • And no amount of poison about our alleged brutality, disregard of the Geneva Convention, and abuse of the human rights of terrorists is going to change what most people think.†   (source)
  • Even Jim's strongest ally there got frightened when various eminent tb experts wrote to Geneva saying they couldn't countenance the elevation of second-line antibiotics to the essential drugs list.†   (source)
  • Though this violated the Geneva Convention's prohibition on forcing officers to labor, Fitzgerald now knew what life in camp with the Bird was like.†   (source)
  • "I'm awfully sorry I sent you away before,' I said, 'but I just got back last night from the Faberge sale in Geneva.'†   (source)
  • Not Geneva, New York, Mr. Langdon.†   (source)
  • He chatted with Geza von Habsburg at Christie's auction house in Geneva and placed a bid for a pair of imperial-presentation Faberge cuff links made for a Russian grand duke.†   (source)
  • A statement read by Mr. Kohler's assistant in Geneva, Sylvie Baudeloque, announced this morning that CERN's board of directors, although enthusiastic about antimatter's potential, are suspending all research and licensing until further inquiries into its safety can be examined.†   (source)
  • I saw Geneva Eggers in front of her house, wearing canvas trousers and a plaid shirt and sitting on a fence post.†   (source)
  • When the bad news reached Williams, he picked up the telephone and called Christie's in Geneva to place a bid on a Faberge cigarette case that had once belonged to Edward VII.†   (source)
  • The lab's in Geneva.†   (source)
  • I waved at Geneva and then fell on my sled in the tire tracks and slid quickly down the mountain, coasting all the way to the mine.†   (source)
  • Geneva, Switzerland.†   (source)
  • " Just for a moment, I thought I saw Geneva Eggers in the back of the crowd, but when I looked again, I couldn't see her.†   (source)
  • I thought of Geneva as a helpless baby, my dad carrying her to safety, and tears welled up in my eyes.†   (source)
  • "You were in Geneva Eggers's house?"†   (source)
  • I snapped on the lamp on my desk and began to eagerly read my book, relishing the titles on each of the chapters, until I remembered Geneva Eggers.†   (source)
  • Anyway, that baby was Geneva Eggers.†   (source)
  • Geneva Eggers.†   (source)
  • "It's Geneva, honey.†   (source)
  • "Geneva," the man murmured.†   (source)
  • He operated through a branch of Russolmaz, the Soviet firm in Geneva that brokers all such purchases.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he stayed all night with the other young PIH-ers, assembling documents and facts for papers that the higher-ups had to present within days in Geneva, in Barcelona, in Moscow.†   (source)
  • They flew first to Geneva, to make contact with the World Health Organization, where they found that the WHO knew very little about the outbreaks.†   (source)
  • We've got boatloads of peas that are on the high seas from Atlanta to Holland to pay for the tulips that were shipped to Geneva to pay for the cheeses that must go to Vienna M.I.F.' M.I.F.?†   (source)
  • Geneva, yes?†   (source)
  • Beyond the white kids-more than half the unit-there's a mixture: three Asian Americans, plus a girl from Singapore and another from Hong Kong; two Indian Americans (as opposed to Native Americans); one Arab American; two Hispanic Americans; a boy from Israel, another from Geneva, and a girl from Bosnia-more or less reflecting the percentages Cedric read about for the rest of Brown's undergraduates.†   (source)
  • Geneva, 1965.†   (source)
  • So the C.D.C. doctors organized their equipment and packed more boxes, getting ready to go to the Geneva airport, from where they would fly to Africa.†   (source)
  • In Geneva.†   (source)
  • From there he had to go on to Geneva.†   (source)
  • The flight to Geneva was due to leave in thirty-five minutes and at this rate he'd miss it by about two years.†   (source)
  • Geneva, 1965.†   (source)
  • Brit, please tell me again why we're picking up Alex Fuentes and taking him with us to Lake Geneva," Sierra says to me.†   (source)
  • Robert was still in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Geneva is a city of fountains large and small, of parks where music once rang out from the bandstands.†   (source)
  • "Lake Geneva," I say.†   (source)
  • For instance, although my house on the lake in Geneva is no longer mine, my accounts in the Cayman Islands remain intensely personal.†   (source)
  • The I prefer Geneva did not mean she refused to make love; quite the contrary, it meant she was tired of limiting their lovemaking to foreign cities.†   (source)
  • We would own the entire Lake Geneva!†   (source)
  • He had set it on his head and looked at himself in the large mirror which, as in the Geneva studio, leaned against the wall.†   (source)
  • Of course, I haven't your resources, but a percentage of forty years of les fonds de contingence have found their way to Geneva on my behalf.†   (source)
  • Geneva, which he had cursed all his life as the metropolis of boredom, now seemed beautiful and full of adventure.†   (source)
  • Surely she knew that Sabina had disappeared from Geneva at the very time Franz decided to live with her.†   (source)
  • If the money from Geneva does not arrive at my bank on the tenth of every month, I'd be thrown out in thirty days.†   (source)
  • Every month my bank receives eighty thousand francs from Geneva-somewhat more than enough for me to pay the bills.†   (source)
  • I don't want to meet her in Geneva.†   (source)
  • He told his wife about nonexistent congresses in Amsterdam and lectures in Madrid; he was afraid to walk with Sabina through the streets of Geneva.†   (source)
  • He may bend a rule now and then, but if he's faced with a Medusa, with hundreds of millions out of Geneva buying up whatever they're buying up in Europe, he may say, 'Halt, that's enough!'†   (source)
  • He woke up in a hospital in Geneva.†   (source)
  • He said in clothes I couldn't afford, 'Aleksei, I'll do everything I can to outsmart you, to help the supreme Soviet to gain world dominance, but in the meantime, if you'd like a holiday, I have a lovely house on the lake in Geneva.'†   (source)
  • The ban on making love with his painter-mistress in Geneva was actually a self-inflicted punishment for having married another woman.†   (source)
  • On the anniversary of the invasion, they attended a memorial meeting organized by a Czech group in Geneva.†   (source)
  • A show of Sabina's work had opened there by chance a week after the Russian invasion, and in a wave of sympathy for her tiny country, Geneva's patrons of the arts bought up all her paintings.†   (source)
  • I prefer Geneva, she answered.†   (source)
  • As though she were peering into the heads of Marie-Claude, of Marie-Anne, of Alain the painter, of the sculptor who held on to his fingerof all the people she knew in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Marie-Anne, who felt it her duty to direct the proceedings, asked the men whether they were planning to go to the Rossini opera an Italian company was putting on in Geneva the following week.†   (source)
  • He had grown so accustomed to linking their love life to foreign travel that his Let's go to Palermo! was an unambiguous erotic message and her I prefer Geneva could have only one meaning: his mistress no longer desired him.†   (source)
  • He became a professor in Geneva (where there are no demonstrations), and in a burst of abnegation (in womanless, paradeless solitude) he published several scholarly books, all of which received considerable acclaim.†   (source)
  • If he made love to her in her Geneva studio, he would be going from one woman to the other, from wife to mistress and back in a single day, and because in Geneva husband and wife sleep together in the French style, in the same bed, he would be going from the bed of one woman to the bed of another in the space of several hours.†   (source)
  • Jinny Love was already coming directly across the almost-touching cots to Nina's, walking on her knees and bearing down over Gertrude, Etoile, and now Geneva.†   (source)
  • When Nina's little lead-mold umbrella, the size of a clover, a Crackerjack prize, was stolen the first night of camp, that was Geneva, Easter's friend.†   (source)
  • Geneva and Etoile were playing at her side, edging each other out of her shadow, but when they saw who was coming up behind them, they turned and ran tearing back towards camp, running at angles, like pullets, leaving a cloud of dust as they passed by.†   (source)
  • That's Easter," Geneva said.†   (source)
  • Lesser ribbons announced that Sir Austen Chamberlain was at Geneva.†   (source)
  • There was a postcard of the Lake of Geneva leaning against it.†   (source)
  • The Reverend John Smeet, with his strangler's hands and his Geneva gown, walked as daintily as he had to the gallows.†   (source)
  • He wore a steel watch chain and from this chain there hung a silver Geneva watch.†   (source)
  • Monsieur Ducroz was a citizen of Geneva.†   (source)
  • He has a fine Geneva[261] watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.†   (source)
  • , of Geneva, accurately set to the meridian of Hamburg.†   (source)
  • The savage began to earn his living as a day laborer in Geneva.†   (source)
  • Here is my passport; examine the visa—Geneva, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Delvino, Yanina.†   (source)
  • "Elizabeth Lavenza "Geneva, May 18th, 17—"†   (source)
  • All Geneva was in excitement about him—all philanthropic and religious Geneva.†   (source)
  • C. N." After this he had only time to catch the night express to Geneva.†   (source)
  • I started up and resolved to return to Geneva with all possible speed.†   (source)
  • I instantly wrote to Geneva; nearly two months have elapsed since the departure of my letter.†   (source)
  • A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France and England.†   (source)
  • I expect to see you looking even more ill than when you quitted Geneva.†   (source)
  • In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth's letter we returned to Geneva.†   (source)
  • To go instantly to Geneva: come with me, Henry, to order the horses.†   (source)
  • Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva.†   (source)
  • By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.†   (source)
  • She interrupted him to ask if he remembered the name of the author whose book she had bought the week before to send to a friend in Geneva.†   (source)
  • They were the Blaines of Lake Geneva; they had quite enough relatives to serve in place of friends, and an enviable standing from Pasadena to Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • His large gray eyes were sun-veined from rowing on Lake Geneva, and he had that special air about him of having known the best of this world.†   (source)
  • Then his mood turned intransigent, sternly diffident, even boorish; he would not listen to any more fibs or pretty stories, refused to answer pastor—whom Luise Ziemssen had summoned and who, to Hans Castorp's regret, had not worn a starched ruff but only Geneva bands— arrived to pray with him, his attitude grew more officially military and his wishes were only blunt commands.†   (source)
  • Then he went on to say beautiful things about Amiel, the professor of Geneva, whose brilliancy promised achievement which was never fulfilled; till at his death the reason of his failure and the excuse were at once manifest in the minute, wonderful journal which was found among his papers.†   (source)
  • After it cleared the low roofs, the skies of Vaud, Valais, Swiss Savoy, and Geneva spread around the passengers in cyclorama.†   (source)
  • Q.—You have the Lake Geneva estate.†   (source)
  • He was taciturn, and what Philip learnt about him he learnt from others: it appeared that he had fought with Garibaldi against the Pope, but had left Italy in disgust when it was clear that all his efforts for freedom, by which he meant the establishment of a republic, tended to no more than an exchange of yokes; he had been expelled from Geneva for it was not known what political offences.†   (source)
  • I know I speak for them when I ask you to call in one of the best-known medicine men around the lake—Herbrugge, from Geneva.†   (source)
  • The place at Lake Geneva is now for rent but when I land I'm going West to see Mr. Barton and get some details.†   (source)
  • She looked up Geneva in an atlas and found it was in the heart of the Finger Lakes Section and considered a pleasant place.†   (source)
  • PREPARATORY TO THE GREAT ADVENTURE The train slowed up with midsummer languor at Lake Geneva, and Amory caught sight of his mother waiting in her electric on the gravelled station drive.†   (source)
  • In the last letter she had from him he told her that he was practising in Geneva, New York, and she got the impression that he had settled down with some one to keep house for him.†   (source)
  • The incongruity of death with either the beauties of Lake Geneva or with his mother's dignified, reticent attitude diverted him, and he looked at the funeral with an amused tolerance.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, so she liked to think, his career was biding its time, again like Grant's in Galena; his latest note was post-marked from Hornell, New York, which is some distance from Geneva and a very small town; in any case he is almost certainly in that section of the country, in one town or another.†   (source)
  • The entire residue of the Blaine and O'Hara fortunes consisted of the place at Lake Geneva and approximately a half million dollars, invested now in fairly conservative six-per-cent holdings.†   (source)
  • For once there seemed more intriguing strangers than sick ones in the cantons, but that had to be guessed at—the men who whispered in the little cafés of Berne and Geneva were as likely to be diamond salesmen or commercial travellers.†   (source)
  • The dispersal of the rest was rather minutely itemized: the taxes and improvements on the Lake Geneva estate had come to almost nine thousand dollars; the general up-keep, including Beatrice's electric and a French car, bought that year, was over thirty-five thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • Half an hour after this second arrival on the Zurichsee, Warren had broken down, his fine shoulders shaking with awful sobs inside his easy fitting coat, his eyes redder than the very sun on Lake Geneva, and they had the awful story.†   (source)
  • From Lake Geneva, aren't you?†   (source)
  • A month or two in Lake Geneva—I'm counting on you to be there in July, you know—then there'll be Minneapolis, and that means hundreds of summer hops, parlor-snaking, getting bored—But oh, Tom," he added suddenly, "hasn't this year been slick!"†   (source)
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