We have known wives to forget that they had husbands…, especially when they supposed that a tax bill or a notification to do military duty might be in the offing!

I didn’t know the store closes at five on Thursdays. Oh well, I’ll have to come back tomorrow.

It was an apt allusion to the then, and still, universally prevalent belief in that power of 'dread fascination' which the writer of the Epistle so well knew they [the Galatians] would comprehend.

In order to serve a fellow like Teng Hsiao-ping the best available mutton soup at Tsunyi, Deputy Provincial Governor Chen who was then concurrently on the Kweichow Provincial Committee (of the Communist Party) went to that town to convene a meeting of cadres in charge of the local committee, commercial activities, food supply, etc. and assigned specific duties, demanding that nothing less than perfection was to be tolerated. A date was set for the Tsunyi Guest House to vacate itself for the preparatory work preceding the Teng visit.]