Winter came early that year, and the animals began hearing a lot of R words they couldn't pronounce. Words like recession, redundancy and rationalization.

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

The power company had lopped off the tops of the trees along the road, and they stood betopped, blunted, like a child's drawing of trees.

The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.