The Freedom Rides had reached their peak in June but were not over, and the ferment stirred up by them had by no means subsided. … It was the Nashville Student Movement that had continued the Freedom Rides when CORE [Congress of Racial Equality], the original sponsor, had declared them too dangerous and had withdrawn. These students had a right to feel proud and sure of themselves.

He was a devout Methodist and never swore. Once when we had been walking along together Mr Dodds had tripped on a tree root and exclaimed, ‘Ruddy hecking flip!’

It is this bad joke which, almost one century later, was still to be found in the government's campaign of 'We are Europe' from 1994.

While doing my business at the urinal trough, along with maybe half dozen other guys, one guy started spouting this and that in a know-it-all manner. … Another urinator rolled his eyes at me as if to say, This guy doesn't know his ass from hole in ground.