This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST

Such was their power that neither could forget His former friend, & future foe—but still There was a high, immortal, proud regret In either’s eye, as if ’twere less their will Than destiny to make the eternal years Their date of war, and their “Champ Clos” the Spheres.

The argument put forth by Copernicus that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the heavens renewed concerns about domification.

Holonym: sword