an usual ceremony at their [the witches'] convents or meetings

Under the influence of heavy drugs and suggestive psychotherapy, people could recall repressed memories and confess abominous crimes

A “chilling effect,” a phrase invoked with numbing regularity these days, is the shibboleth that civil libertarians have brandished for a couple of decades against actions that could deter the press from exercising its constitutional freedom.

For many years Bud Abbott served brilliantly as Lou Costello's deadpan straight man.