His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for one of 'em yere flat-outs.

He headed the China-watching Consulate General, and in 1963 drafted a position paper for President Kennedy that recommended rapprochement with China.

Diana and I made necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?

Before his first walking holiday, he went to a specialist outfitter to buy some boots.