ajar
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Ajar, which works on accountability for mass crimes across south-east Asia, has brought a total of 57 stolen children back home.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2017
She and a small retinue from Ajar ascended from the capital, Dili, in a truck that started and stopped, grinding its wheels into sheets of toffee-coloured mudwater.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2017
“There’s nothing more depressing than only being who you are, some small work that’s the result of circumstance,” Lila, still a teenager, tells him in an echo of Gary’s own Émile Ajar confession.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2017
The tangled web turned knotty mess began when Gary, a celebrated French author two decades past his prime, decided in 1973 to write his new novel, his 20th, under a new name: Émile Ajar.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2017
The housemaid proffered her The Heir of Redclyffe, and the kitchen-maid, a somewhat oppressed damsel, timidly produced Gates Ajar.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
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