He was an all-American basketball player last year.

Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.

Once an input stream has failed, it is very hard to unfail it. You can clear the failbit and take your chances, but that is pretty useless in practice. If you cannot tolerate failure, read the input file as a sequence of strings and then parse the strings.

The trouble was that he very often said, with an air of resolute conviction, things that simply were not true. Reporters and opposing candidates collected the errors of Ronald Reagan by the notebookful.