This often makes it a nervous, hiding-to-nothing game in which disasters are so much more memorable than successes

The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.

I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”

The computer knurds managed to identify all the bad chips and replace them -- except for the microcode rom.