epidural analgesia

We’d squat by the creek waiting for the bottle to glug full through its narrow neck and then together we would walk to the church and throw the water on the fire a quart at a time, not so much in hope of putting it out as to be able to say, if asked, that we tried.

Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.

Between the borschtsch and the schtschi there is the same kind of relationship, and at the same time the same difference in characteristic qualities, as between the people of Little Russia and Great Russia.