If I cannot be of service, then I certainly don't wish to impose, said McGinty, with a quick fan of breeze that indicated a sweeping bow.

The person who parked their car on the double yellow line may be a doctor who has been called urgently to the house of a critically ill patient ...

A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.

It's how harried parents across America would like to bring up their children if not for the tiger moms and eagle dads in their midst.