When the human player has been sufficiently affronted by the gizmo's calm 100 per cent efficiency, he can pull the lever toward him and reduce the gizmotic grasp of the situation to 98 per cent or to 95 per cent or to whatever mechanical I.Q. level, right down to idiocy, will give the human player a chance.

They crowded through the archway and into the park.

the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

Others insinuated that women 'crowded up to Cambridge', not for the benefits of a higher education, but because of the proximity of 2,000 young men.