In Moldavia, a young Leonid Brezhnev orchestrated the postwar subjugation of the newly annexed Romanian territory, ordering thousands of executions and shipping off 30,000 people to Siberian labor camps.

• So, you will work till 8 tomorrow, then?
• As you wish.

With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.

The word peevish among the vulgar of Scotland is used for niggardly, covetous; in the North of England, for witty, subtile.