For us it’s been a real Catch-22: when we have the time to take a vacation, we don’t have enough money, and when we have enough money, we don’t have the time.

In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."

Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.

These basic provisions of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam do not allow the United States to wirepull its lackeys to rig up the so-called Republic of Vietnam.