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They strike up a conversation, and Mary learns that he is a 23 year-old Austrian art student who has recently fled the country because he was being persecuted by the Nazis, and now, without a passport or any other documents, is staying as an illegal immigrant in a shabby rented room at the foot of the hill quite close to the Leonards ' villa.
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They and strike
They threaten to strike.
They are used to strike enemy positions by the Chadian Air Force, but one has been shot down by rebels.
They include the Iranian-made Fajr-3 and Fajr-5, the latter with a range of, enabling it to strike the Israeli port of Haifa, and the Zelzal-1, with an estimated range, which can reach Tel Aviv.
They may congregate outside the business they are striking against to make their presence felt, increase worker participation, and dissuade ( or prevent ) strike breakers from entering the workplace.
They came within one strike of losing the World Series against the Boston Red Sox before a series of hits and defensive miscues ultimately led to an error by Boston's Bill Buckner which gave the Mets a Game 6 victory.
They reject using state power to construct a socialist society, favoring strategies such as the General strike.
They could attack area targets like cities, but could not reliably and accurately attack precision strike targets like enemy bomber bases, hardened command and control centers, naval bases, or weapons storage areas.
" They also cite the First strike option as an example of the " terror of coercive diplomacy " as a form of this, which holds the world hostage with the implied threat of using nuclear weapons in " crisis management.
They strike coins to celebrate their independence, which would last for only 30 months.
They protect customer wiring, equipment, and personnel from any transient energy on the line, such as from a lightning strike to a telephone pole.
They expressed their concerns in a protest song during their 1836 strike:
They cannot, on the other hand, strike over minor disputes, either during the arbitration procedures or after an award is issued.
They go on strike, don't they?
They decided to strike against the blacks who were forming their own militant group called the Black Guerrilla Family.
They soon elected an executive committee to command the strike and issued General Order No. 1, halting all railroad traffic other than passenger and mail trains.
They settled the strike but closed the roundhouse, moving the overhaul base to Kansas City.
They were imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for " sabotaging the Land Act ", from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others signed, was issued calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike.
They took different positions when the train conductors on the line Dakar-Niger went on strike.
He recommended that recovered patients be employed, arguing that " They are the ones who are most likely to refrain from all inhumane treatment, who will not strike even in retaliation, who can stand up to pleading, menaces, repetitive complaining, etc.
They collectively decide to strike at the Japanese government in a high profile attack, leading up to a dramatic finale.
They were the eventual winners of the Ladies Competition whilst the Men's competition was won by the Hungarian workers ’ choir, who had completed their journey to Wales by hitch-hiking when their train had been cancelled at Basle because of the French strike.
They flew their first strike on 25 May 1964 ; two of the T-28s were damaged by antiaircraft fire while missing their target.
They will frequently stay still even when approached closely, and will generally strike only if physical contact is made.
They called for a general strike the next day, 17 June.
They will occasionally strike-and sometimes ruin with their powerful jaws-artificial lures, but they generally strike on live or cut fishes.
They and up
They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.
They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.
They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.
They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.
They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.
They will -- when they give up the donkey and the elephant.
They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.
They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.
They had been sitting too long to be able to stand up easily.
They spun and flung their rifles up.
They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.
They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.
They will give suggestions that can be worked up into field procedures.
They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.
They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.
They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.
`` They found something else up there '', she said half-aloud to the empty room.
They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.
They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.
They must be freezing up there now.
They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.
They bent over yellowed prayerbooks and looked up only to watch the teacher.
They picked up sticks and hurled them at the girl.
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