The fabric I purchased — superbold flannels, bright patterned in tie-dyed-looking oranges and greens, teals and blues — still makes me incredibly happy to admire and run between my fingers.

In fact, a fighting friend of mine said that he could hardly walk in any direction in this war without tumbling over a scientist who had got in the way. In the Royal Air Force, where the concentration of scientists is perhaps greatest, they have a pet name for them. They call them “Boffins.” Why, I do not know. I said to a young friend of mine in the Air Force, “Why do you call scientists ‘Boffins’?” He said, “I don’t know. What else would you call them?”]

To diagnose your opponent's weaknesses — an over-adventurous style, a dislike for assuming the defensive, overconfidence in certain types of positions, impatience in the endgame, rigidity in choice of openings — requires a psychological as well as chessic analysis.

Bosco! He eats 'em alive! Eats 'em alive! Brissenden exclaimed, imitating the spieler of a locally famous snake-eater.