Opposite him sat Peter Thorneycroft and the patball went on and on and on. It's as though one hadn't left off last July - the same sort of professional debating, two heavyweights in a clinch because neither wants to knock the other out […]

1960: John Updike, Rabbit, Run, p39 & p103

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The jet engines whined at take off.