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Meanwhile, above their heads, huge trade deals were greasing the wheels as presidents and heads of state met with business leaders and Fifa executives.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2014

I said it was wonderful, while we were greasing up, but he said that when I came to know these steel spider-webs I would realize that nothing but dynamite could cripple them.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark