Byron opened his Don Juan with a sparkling attack on the insipidity of those he termed – for fairly obvious reasons – "the Lakers", and scorned those who haunted Keswick as if it were some daunting wilderness.
The plan provided for the temporary division of the country into larger and smaller territorial units, and considered various " suggestions ", as they were termed, for the incorporation into the German Reich of the inhabitants and districts of Czechoslovakia.
So, if our forces are unable to control the escalating violence that has made Basra on par with, if not worse than, the area analysts smugly termed for so long, the "Sunni triangle", let alone inspire any sort of confidence in their presence among the local population, what exactly is it that they are doing there?
The shared home of a parent and a grown child — traditionally and archaically termed, for reasons that will not be explored here, the "mother-daughter house" — is often an ungainly affair: a house built for one family but clumsily adapted to serve two, with perhaps a separate entrance added on, the basement or second floor converted to an efficiency apartment.
One, termed for convenience the man-brute view, stresses differences often to the point of denying similarities altogether and derives from the traditional religious accounts of the separate creations of humans and animals; the other, the evolutionary view, stresses both similarities and differences.
By the early Eighties, though, the supply was running low " in 1978, Rorer sold Quaaludes to the Lemmon Company, which continued to market them as a sleeping aid, even as the DEA was cracking down on street sales and quack doctors who would, for the paltry sum of 50 bucks, write anyone who walked in off the street a prescription for "714s", so termed for the number stamped on each pill.
