From this hour until Christmas eve “Burke’s” will be emphatically a Christmas Store. We have turned the entire establishment over to Santa Claus—and to you, his legions of lieutenants and lieutenantesses —to the gift-gatherers and gift-givers of Rochester and surrounding towns.

[…] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.

In the US, the code name for a serious nuclear weapons incident is Broken Arrow. It is US policy neither to confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons at any specific location; this also applies to Broken Arrow incidents.

[…] Never could keep friends long, so I figured if I had a sister, I'd at least have someone to be friends with, even if she was a crying poop machine for the first year."