Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine. The current conditions in Indianapolis: Temperature sixty-one degrees, partly cloudy skies, winds from the southwest and intense Midwestern boredom.
My other name's Bill, he said. I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William. / Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that? / No, sir. / Good name, anyway. / Yes, sir. / Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns.
They […] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.
However, these many disappointments did not deter Sun Yat-sen. In October his supporters, augmented by secret society fighters and desperate peasants, staged a surprisingly strong campaign in the Waichow region of eastern Kwangtung.
