In a trice Mr Jospin would no longer be his party's hero, but its scapegoat.

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The cannier despots know that whispers of dissent among the few can turn into howls of anger among the many in a Tunisian trice.

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And with one trice, they added another twenty thousand.

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With little inertia, friction or drag, the wheel can be spun up to speed in a trice, and then made to dump its rotational energy back into the car's transmission in seconds.

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To cap it all, NATO, in its frustration at failing to remove the regime in a trice, is killing civilians the very crime it was meant, under UN Security Council Resolution 1973, to prevent.

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At literary parties, tiddly in a trice, she could be the life and soul, mistaking the queen for Vera Lynn loudly and to her face, or inviting men to join her under the piano.

ECONOMIST: Dame Beryl Bainbridge, novelist, died on July 2nd, aged 77