“I definitely prefer limiting our hands-on action-adventure to our attempts to mythbust my love scenes.” Pete smiled and pulled her close.

The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity[…]

If a and b are non-zero elements of R such that ab=0, then aandb are both called zero divisors. If R is non-trivial and has no zero divisors, then it is called an integral domain. Note that if a is a unit in R, it cannot be a zero divisor (if ab=0, then multiplying both sides of this equation by a⁻¹ yields b=0.

Zing! The joke had rebounded back on the one who started it. Ouch! Mama Jane winced ruefully. We all dissolved in laughter at the good-natured repartee.