In Moldavia, a young Leonid Brezhnev orchestrated the postwar subjugation of the newly annexed Romanian territory, ordering thousands of executions and shipping off 30,000 people to Siberian labor camps.

With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.

The word peevish among the vulgar of Scotland is used for niggardly, covetous; in the North of England, for witty, subtile.

• So, you will work till 8 tomorrow, then?
• As you wish.