Dogs of War is about--surprise!--mercenaries, the fall-back subject of choice for every overly testosteroned rock musician since the Creation.

The passage was so taken by the Jewish or Ebionite translators, Aquila, Theodotion, and Symmachus.

Once, at a traditional charcoal-making plant, I got a bottle of schwarzbier, a kind of black lager, and another day, just east of the former East Germany–West Germany border, I happened on Kukki’s Erbsensuppe, a roadside stand selling bowls of thick split-pea soup with bacon that had opened just after reunification.

to press a crowd back