Four towns in the Quabbin Valley were disincorporated, and their residents relocated, to create a reservoir.

The result follows trippingly from the premise. But adopting the premise requires departing from judicial practice and principle.

He had to pass the lapped cars on the racetrack.

Besides, if worse came to worst he had his pig-sticker— a beautiful switch-blade stiletto he'd scrounged off the body of a Latino after a gang war— in his back pocket.