… no person's name should be mentioned on its own, for intercession on his or her behalf, since this will focus the attention of the accuser on that person, hence, the idea of the collective kvitels — the safety in numbers syndrome — …

Unlike poliomyelitis, paralysis in China syndrome is symmetrical. In addition, cases are seasonal.

And Strang sitting there before the Mayor in the leather-mahogany sanctum sanctorum of City Hall, bowing and scraping, genuflecting like a mandarin, dizzy with adulation, and Uriah Heeping before that exalted personage, His Honor the Mayor.

To say the truth, Sophia, when very young, discerned that Tom, though an idle, thoughtless, rattling rascal, was nobody's enemy but his own […]