We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.

“Now that I've finished Russ's preso, neither do I!”

This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.

Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about priorities.