to collect the best; to put together the cream of the crop
two-way; bidirectional; interactive
interrogation; hearing; trial
high-handed; domineering; on one's high horse
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
gossip; corner of the mouth
conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system)
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
being very popular; being in great demand
to become popular; to grow in popularity; to catch on
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
to enter into diplomatic relations
whole story; full picture; full particulars
National Security Agency (of the United States); NSA
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police
to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
vice-chief; vice-director; assistant director; deputy manager
financial page (of newspaper); financial aspects; economic front
forwarding or transportation industry
countermeasure; counter-measure
conscious; deliberate; intentional
great cause; moral law; justice
democracy; democratic nation
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
armaments; military preparations
evasion; excuse; subterfuge; runaround
false accusations; unfounded suspicion; groundless charge; wet clothes
from beginning to end; from start to finish; from first to last; end-to-end; all the way through
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth
House of Councillors election; upper house election
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine