The best wardmaster in Scutari had eight wives—I mean eight wives alive—at different stations. […] He was tried when he came home at Warwick Assizes for what was euphoniously called bigamy, but was octogamy.
Put more baldly, the reason why Republicans and British Conservatives started giving each other copies of Atlas Shrugged in the 80s was that Rand seemed to grant intellectual heft to the prevailing ethos of the time.
[…] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.
Hao ( 16 ), described by Nowick et al., has been frequently used in combination with oligourea templates ( 8 )[ 171 ] or ornithine amino acids that act as δ-sided turns.[ 172 ] Moreover, Hao ( 16 ) and other moieties also proved useful for the initiation of intermolecular β-sheet formation.[ 173, 174 ] Hamilton and co-workers used a diphenylacetylene moiety ( 17 ) to arrange two strands in an antiparallel β-sheet.[ 166 ] This moiety concomitantly replaces one residue in each strand, thereby reproducing the distinctive interstrand hydrogen bonds of a β-sheet structure and incorporating a covalent cross-link between the two strands.
