Kobe was a shambles; the slaughter of the cotton operatives by machine-guns became classic as the most terrific execution ever achieved by modern war machines.

The African women in St. Croix who still use herbs and plant leaves to cure many diseases are called Weedwomen.

His poker-faced timing makes the most of even mediocre one-liners, and beneath sequoian impassivity lurks an engagingly warm persona.

A small formation of hadedahs, four or five of them, flew past overhead, shrieking their wild death-cries across the valley.