Here, in the sublimely conjured atmosphere of a Norfolk girls' school, with its "small, chemical indoor pool which smelt fierce", its "clotted grass, and the electric snag of bands being pulled through hair, and the sound of a distant piano", the real oddity that is Moira develops.
The fierce battle between grass-roots conservatives and Washington power brokers that hurt Republican Senate ambitions in 2010 has also continued.
Ward's 6ft 3ins frame, his big serve and fierce groundstrokes seem ideally suited to playing on grass.
The medics, themselves half dead from fatigue, take the wounded out, lay them on the grass, and then drench them with a fierce spray of cold water.
As a result, it has been the subject of a fierce lobbying campaign, with environmentalists and major business groups sparring on the airwaves and in grass-roots lobbying state by state.
It crouches there at the edge of the grass, not a hedge at all but some kind of spruce or yew or pine, a fierce little tree that has been made to grow low against the ground for protection".
