The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.

In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.

Our global society develops in fits and starts.

That cream gravy on the chicken Maryland, beaten biscuit browned in butter and the calorieful dessert will take some resisting.