Word of the Day
He was a bibulous individual of uncertain age, who, in the intervals of creeping about his duties, kept an eye open for possible additions to his staff of creditors. -- P G Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
In 1990 Iraq's Saddam Hussein aimed to corner the world oil market through military aggression against Kuwait; control of oil represented the acme of his ambitions. -- Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Virtual State