For the brinksman, it is Soviet might that will force the United States to accept the new reality of Soviet power that now permits the Soviet Union to have weapons and troops abroad.

It is customary […] to sound a foreign government privately before making a formal application for an agrément.

But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him.

When there is more than one character in the scene, as is so frequently the case with Shakespeare (where there can be a whole courtful of people for you to deal with), then place the different characters in widely different locations on stage, giving them each a single simple attitude toward you that you are either combatting or using as agreement.