The speaker spoke complimentingly of the dispensary and the hospital, and of other refuges for the physically broken, […]

If current trends continue, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by 2020 the Chinese could have more than 350 submarines and missile-equipped surface ships in the Asia-Pacific. By contrast, the U.S. Navy projects that it will have 67 submarines and surface ships “stationed in or forward deployed to” the Asia-Pacific by 2020.

Her stick made a little clickety noise on the flagstones.

What indignation in her mind Against enslavers of mankind! Base kings, and ministers of state, Eternal objects of her hate!