An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.

Thus he argues that the members of the National Assembly were independent from the constituencies that elected them, because the latter (the assemblies, administrative and elected) are biennially renewed, as was the National Assembly. […] This [being responsible to electors] is implicitly the case of the representatives in the National Assembly, who must also face biannual elections[…].

The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.

Up until the time I became the intrigued owner of this book I thought cheese-cake was what you got when a newspaper photographer persuaded a glamor puss to raise her skirts unladylikely high. Little did I know. Why, cheese-cake is won-der-ful! Particularly if it’s cottage cheese-cake,[…].