Tony, I'm the executive director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Strategic Homeland Intelligence, Enforcement, and Logistics Division, explained Fury. Tony nodded. […] Want a tip? Fire your namer of things, because that's a mouthful.

[…] as for the others, they at once fall back upon an Auvergnese patois, at least as different from ordinary French as a Durham miner's vernacular is from a West countryman's.

The grave site, humble as it is, reflects something more than a hometown’s determination to honor a fallen son, something that seems irreducible in the politics of Iraq: the refusal of the Sunni minority, who ruled Iraq for centuries until Mr. Hussein’s overthrow, to reconcile themselves to the assumption of power by the Shiite majority who won elections godfathered by the American occupation authority.

The mode-coupling in multimoded waveguides is also effectively suppressed.