In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."

These basic provisions of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam do not allow the United States to wirepull its lackeys to rig up the so-called Republic of Vietnam.

Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.

For us it’s been a real Catch-22: when we have the time to take a vacation, we don’t have enough money, and when we have enough money, we don’t have the time.