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• A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow.
  The time had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to catching instructions on the wing....
• And what accomplished villains these old engineers were!
  What diabolical ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Commissariat of Railroads ....
• And what accomplished villains these old engineers were!
  What diabolical ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Comissariat of Railroads ....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• Wood is highly ecological, since trees are a renewable resource.
  If you cut down a tree, another will grow in its place....
• We didn't order those new ladders either. I issued them to the men yesterday and they were absolutely thrilled, isn't that right, men?
  Yes, sir. First solid fuel we've had since we burnt the cat!...
• It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe.
  ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe....