Consider this: In a clean room, the couch never gets dirty.

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Once the race began, he was a ruthless competitor (some preferred the term "dirty") who never seemed to go at less than his upper limit.

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Mrs Fernandez Meijide, whom many fancy as the alliance's presidential candidate for 1999, lost a son during the dirty war and has never learned his fate.

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Obsessed with work, he never married, bathed infrequently and wore dirty clothes.

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We have never found a home which was unacceptably dirty, but we have had a few cases where we spent part of the first day cleaning.

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The same smell of winter clothing that never really dried out, of boots soaked through to dirty socks, unwashed feet.

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In the film itself, Attorney Donziger brags of his ex parte contacts with the Ecuadorian judge, confessing that he would never be allowed to do such things in the United States, but, in Ecuador, everyone plays dirty.

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