Word: desisted
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...American. It was a critique of a story about particle accelerators, so innocuous that staff members initially failed to twig to its authorship. The letter with Penthouse's manuscript, by contrast, contained one menacing and macabre touch. Since Penthouse was less "respectable" than the other publications, "we promise to desist permanently from terrorism, except that we reserve the right to plant one (and only one) bomb intended to kill, after our manuscript has been published." Bob Guccione, the magazine's headline-happy publisher, volunteered a page to Unabomber for a monthly column if he would stop the rampage...
...Angeles International Airport. Officials maintained tight airline and postal security despite a second letter from the Unabomber to the New York Times boasting that the threat was a hoax -- in his words, "one last prank." In yet a third communication at week's end, the bomber said he would desist from further killing attempts if the Times or Washington Post agreed to publish his anti-industrial, antitechnology manifesto...
...nomination. Fletcher, 70, was appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by three GOP Presidents in a row: Ford, Reagan and Bush. In a statement, a spokesman for Fletcher said that he hopes to "force the extreme social conservative, right wing of his party to cease and desist with their race-baiting and gender-bashing campaign rhetoric...
...called the shooting justified. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, which was once considered the radical wing of the antiabortion movement, spoke against the attack and later confronted Hill. "For the cause of Christ, for the sake of the children and the sake of your own family, cease and desist from spewing this misrepresentation of the Scripture," Benham recalls telling Hill in a corridor. Hill refused, but he promised others that he would never pull the trigger...
...PBHA board of directors voted at an August 10 meeting to ask Nero to resign because Smith alleged that she drove after he ordered her to desist. Smith and PBHA President John B. King '96-'95 also accused Nero of authorizing uncertified counselors to drive campers in PBHA vans, a charge she denied...