A catstep is a narrow, back-tilted terrace or bench on a grassy slope, formed when a hillside slumps beneath its own weight.

In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture[…] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note:

Christ Almighty, a child in Christ. I’m getting hot, hot’s what I’m getting. The top of my skull is lifting off. For Christ’s sake, a child. It’ll be a snowchild. The first snowbody will now become somebody. A child. It’s already on a journey.

The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from.