Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?

The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.

Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist.

Chou Shan Island had been fairly taken; to exchange it for a worthless rock nobody wanted was the height of idiocy! If not Chou Shan, then they wanted some other well-situated island in the mouth of the Yangtze.]