The ramjet should have failed, and then whoever run the race to the Power Room should have yanked his smoking body out of the way and, hopeably, restarted it.

Whether it were the absence of Theodora or some other cause, he was brusk, ungracious, scowling, and silent, only nodding to the Bishop who benignly saluted him, […]

[T]he talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points.

I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.