wash'd with the effusive wave

National Service was meant to turn boys into men and make the Yellow Peril think twice about moving south. It was universally known as Nasho – a typically Australian diminutive. […] But the most brutal fact about Nasho was the initial seventy-seven-day period of basic training, most of which took place at Ingleburn.

Anyway, I'm not madly in love with Roz's commentary, but it does seem unfair to me to gang-pile her for calling double axels easy when other people miss them, on the basis of how many SHE personally missed in her career.

He got his degree from the state ag college.