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Stalin was said to have been friendly and avuncular, with an impish sense of humor, and collected jokes about himself—he had several prison camps’ full of them.
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Was it even possible to lead an empire of a billion people without setting in motion wheels that would grind human blood and bones into paste?
He reached inside his new leather trench coat—I need one, he’d joked with Olga’s people: it’s traditional—
“If we’re lucky, the department of ass-covering just got its ass handed to it by the department of getting shit done.
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Passed
(Suburbs only by European standards: this would be a densely packed city anywhere in North America.)
nice space station you’ve got; wouldn’t it be a shame if someone parked a battleship on its airlock?
Knowing if it was still active,
Missing word
“One step at a time. The first thing you learn in the game is to trust Control.
“Unless you’re rich, flying sucks,” Angie commented. “We’re not rich, so be prepared to be treated like cattle. if they search you, it’s undignified but it’s not personal: just try to stay calm.”
“How many hours is a life worth?” Schenk glared at her: “last year, German police officers fired only eleven bullets in anger. All police officers combined. In the same year your police shot and killed more than three thousand civilians, half of them innocent bystanders. No innocents will be shot in my city
(Behind the President trailed the usual extras: secret service agents, a White House IT support worker,
—Colonel Smith—” Irving chipped in, to Eileen’s disgust.
Never rat out subordinates during a chewing out
“Go write those letters. Then draft me a memo on what steps we can take immediately to take the Commonwealth off the boil.”
Good president
“Do go on,” said the general, as polite as any prosecutor deposing the accused in a capital trial.
He felt like a mouse in the dock beneath the unblinking gaze of a court of owls:
(It turned out people in this time line had really weird ideas about royalty: weird and wrong. She resolved to write the Disney Corporation a stern letter.)
Gomez visibly wilted. An instinctive hard-liner, she held low expectations of the Democrat President. Smith, in contrast, had differently low expectations. He’d seen a lot of politicians in his time, and the current POTUS was both brilliant and smart—which in his opinion was a bad combination, as it made her hard to second-guess and prone to seeing three sides to every black-or-white issue.
Colonel Grayson looked as if he was unable to make his mind up whether she was a Faberge egg or a live hand grenade.
only to learn that his princess was in another time line.
Ha
“We’re running a trade surplus of helpful idiots right now,” the President continued.
