No one except Ecclestone probably really understands the revenues being earned by the sport, such is the secrecy and labyrinthine structure. […] He knows where the bodies are buried. No one wants to get on his wrong side.

they find themselves fool'd and shamm'd, as we say, into a Conviction.

The Peace of Augsburg charged the Reichskammergericht with resolving any disputes by entrusting cases to bipartisan panels composed equally of Lutheran and Catholic judges.

We climbed up into the cove hardwood along a CCC path laid by unemployed boys not much older than Robin.