Such a big staff, with ludicrously little to do, inevitably began interfering with arrangements made by the army commanders. Its actual efforts at coordination were from the start so many wrenches in the works.

[T]he book actually does cram together a great deal of legal knowledge. Schulz thought that it could only be a product, directly or indirectly, of the school of Beirut and proposed to rename it 'the Berytean lawbook'; …

It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.

Again, because containerisation had yet to arrive, we loaded and unloaded the lot by hand.