The run left him huffing and puffing.

Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.

In the Army's Force XXI Operations, a new form of battle command based on a nonhierarchial—or Internetted—structure is envisioned. Internetted structures refer to those entities that rely upon a structure resembling neural networks, with individual nodes connected to one another in web-like patterns. […] Because of the robust properties of this design, it was foreseen during the Cold War that such an Internetted U.S. communications structure would have a better chance of surviving a potential nuclear exchange than the more traditional existing structure.

“I’ll be blowed if it isn’t the kid,” ejaculated Wheeler.