Unvarnished beauty that may have gone undetected by Ms Applebaum's friend, the old Russian hand, surely would have managed to stoke the desire of an actual Russian lad.
In typical Robin Williams fashion from which they were surely inspired, they managed to mix the pain with hopefulness, and tragedy with brilliance and wit.
Sadly she hadn't yet (and surely never now will) managed to prepare for the bit that would require her to possess a modicum of warm lightness of touch, rather than the all bonhomie of a snowplough blade, as she refused to even countenance just the possibility – crazy, I know!
Surely medical science should have managed to pin down the health effects of a simple, unpatented molecule by now?
But surely no-one else has managed to match Martin Peters, who, as Jez Simmonds points out, once bagged all four goals as Tottenham walloped United 4-1 at Old Trafford early in 1973.
Most impressive qualifiers: Japan might have qualified with the highest points tally from the group stages, but special mention must surely go to Iran, who managed to top their five-team group despite scoring just eight goals in eight matches.
Of course, the defensive backs know this, and if they managed to forget, Tuck surely reminded them.
It surely helps that the CNCF has managed to bring competitors like AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle under a single roof to collaboratively work on building these new technologies.
A company can't easily shore up its weaknesses, especially when it grows to the size of Facebook, but the social network has managed to slowly but surely reinvent itself on mobile in a way that makes sense and resonates with users.
If our school managed to stay open, then surely so could theirs?
