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...companies slashed imports. Some Government officials complain that weeks passed between FEO'S discovery of a decline in imports and Simon's decision to order needed changes in the program. One economist at the Council of Economic Advisers grumbles, "There was great reluctance to bite the bullet...
...tenacity and submissiveness. And it is firmly in the grip of a totalitarian system no whit less vigilant than ours. Its army and population will not surrender en masse with Western good sense, even when surrounded and beaten. Every soldier and every civilian will fight to the last bullet, the last breath...
...third period was all Harvard. Waldstein got things moving early, as he fired in a 40-foot bullet at 1:51, and Thomas followed quickly with his second tally of the night to put the game away...
...very late one Friday in the frightful winter of the year 19-. Holmes was filling his pipe with the noxious tobacco he kept in a slipper upon the mantel. I sat by the gasogene, trying to ignore the chill worrying my old Jezail bullet wound. It was not a very keen period for the world's first consulting detective; like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door...
...duffel bag containing $1.1 million. Then William conned Richard into believing that he was his partner in a drug-stealing scheme. He also got him to make his older brother the beneficiary of a new will. In 1965 Richard was found dead in a parked car with a bullet hole behind his right...