THERE was a string band on the Councilor, made up of cabin and dining-room boys who could play mandolin and guitar. It always played in the evenings […] one complete bar of “Dardanella.” Smiles were wiped from every councilmanic face.

The divers grappled each other in an octopuslike duel.

Many feared that the Democrats would follow the president off a cliff.

By dint of learning by doing over thirty years or more, Japanese LCD manufacturers have so honed their production technologies that they can secure a yield of perfect products of as much as 90 percent in a typical production batch.