Short were his shrift in that debate, / That hour of fury and of fate, / If Lorn encounter'd Bruce!]

And the primary cause of disability is chronic disease — cardiovascular, musculoskeletal problems and cancer are leading diagnoses — rather than work-related mishaps or nonworkplace accidents, according to a 2007 study for the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, a nonprofit organization that informs the public about insurance needs.

Mom always worried about our safety in my friend's rattletrap. I told her not to worry, as it can't go fast enough to be dangerous.

By a convention, signed June 20, 1895, Hokow, opposite to the Tongkingese town of Laokai, directly on the frontier, was substituted for Manhao. Szemao, in the southwestern corner of Yünnan, was opened for the trade between Yünnan and French Laos, and the common frontier was rectified in such a way as to cede to France a portion of the territory of Kianghung.