I'm calling on the owners of Maine Yankee to pull their managers in check, because they are destroying whatever goodwill their employees have built up, Shadis said. This is such a lack-grace exit. He said instead of fighting the state and the community over jurisdiction questions and clean-up standards, the company should go the extra mile, clean it up to community comfort levels, and fare thee well.

Many of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. --F. Beaumont.

I threw on my clothes, stepped out the arctic entry, and felt the frozen air rush into my lungs.

“Pretty?” […] Mr. Prestcott considered. “Fair to middling. Bit weaselly, if you know what I mean. Wouldn’t have been much without makeup. As it was, she managed to look quite attractive.”