What is the common thread in these three stories?

And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

Oh, there is fuel enough for the memoirs, even if Marion's eyes glaze over, periodically, during tea or one of Corrie's rather awful lunches …. The names flow forth, and are rubbished or extolled, …

He attempted to commonize the various standards by ensuring a similar format and implementation.