Without Soviet support surrounding the missile crisis, Cuba's military would have been merely a bonsai army and they would have quickly succumbed to any serious invasion from the west.

Everything hangs upon whether the boss agrees.

But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore.

She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress.