Here's a fadge (farthing) or a button, I said, taking my pocket knife and cutting a few of the stitches holding the cloth and lining together, […]

Several of the recruits had special leadership responsibilities within the Company, the most significant being the Recruit Chief Petty Officer (RCPO) and the Recruit Master at Arms (RMA). The RCPO was the senior recruit and was responsible for just about everything; he reported directly to the CC.

Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.

Your car was pinking and I fixed it. Bakgat.