a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini;

Wearing a pale-yellow dokhona — the traditional wraparound dress of Bodo women — and a white blouse, Romel's wife Tillottama, 56, organized chairs for us in her courtyard.

As the planes scrambled, four of his veterans went up: Tom Lanphier, Rex Barber, Joe Moore and Jim McLanahan. They had waited with other Lightnings at 30,000 feet and dived on a formation of eleven Zeroes far below, working in pairs.

We might suppose that some of the most impactful heroines of current films would combine these two functions: that of the good-bad girl ...