His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.

so as no fuller on earth can white them

I got kicked off the team after a string of poor performances

John and I used to knock about when we were younger.