Mary: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious / If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious.

When you're in town, could you pick up the dry cleaning?

The police cleared the crowd out of the street to investigate the accident.

Trouble broke out at Kalighat temple on Monday morning after police barred pandas from near the sanctum sanctorum. Angry pandas, some armed with sticks, allegedly assaulted members of the temple committee. … Temple sources said the cop crackdown was a knee-jerk reaction to a complaint filed by an NRI [non-resident Indian] woman on Sunday against the pandas.