Squeezing open the kitchen door, Amy came face to face with Greg's baggy Y-fronted backside. 'Greg! Amy's here!' shouted Sophie, too late.

She not only outlines the devastating effects of seferberlik but also highlights the changing meaning of this term - as it acquired a civilian dimension in its Arabic rendition (safar barlik) - and its potency as a metonym for the war as a whole.

We don't always want to burn near periapsis. Suppose we want to change the height at periapsis. The most efficient place to change the radius of periapsis is at apoapsis. Consider applying 𝛥v at some other point in the orbit. In this case both periapsis and apoapsis will change. If we apply the 𝛥v tangentially at apoapsis, all of the 𝛥v will go into changing periapsis, and vice versa.

I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.