In between looking after Damp and producing ovensful of delicious food, Mrs McLachlan would spend approximately one hour each week attempting to tidy up the mess, but so far had made little impression.

Now even [Fred] Silverman was grim. It looks chintzy, he said, even with all the money we're spending.

the marines had six 8-inch howitzers, eight 4.2-inch mortars, and three 105-mm howitzer batteries, each with six pieces.

Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation? Is it with a view to achieve a compromise at all costs, or is it to support the illusion that Hindu nationalism is working in the interests of Muslims as well as Hindus? Irony is flattered to death by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale.