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...later withdrew his order and is currently calling for a three-month moratorium, to give the parties concerned more time to review the relevant testimony...
...cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder." Nonetheless, when Bartram's cockleshell of a boat was attacked by a giant alligator on a Florida lake, the naturalist beat at it with a club "until he withdrew sullenly and slowly into the water, looking at me and seeming neither fearful nor in any way disturbed...
...black nationalist pressure on neighboring Rhodesia mounted, Vorster began tightening the screws on the government of Prime Minister Ian Smith, now almost totally dependent on South Africa for military help and an outlet to the sea. Last year Vorster withdrew a paramilitary South African police force from Rhodesia. Vorster left South African helicopters behind in Rhodesia and continued to provide arms and ammunition, but he made sure Smith realized that the supply could stop suddenly unless he negotiated seriously with moderate black politicians...
Presumably all would have been well except that the more he thought about it, the more strongly Mayor Hofheinz felt that the city was getting the short end of the spoils. As a result, Brownco withdrew its proposal last month, and Houston's city council flabbergasted the oil community by deciding to launch a court action to claim oil and gas rights in the park for the city. Fumed a lawyer for a major oil company: "It's a government takeover, pure and simple...
...tried to quiet him down. I left him there, sitting wild-eyed in the hallway, counting the rings on the other end of the line (I'll let it go to 50 'cause she's probably right at some critical point.").-Bill was flipping out. Within a month he withdrew from school...