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Said Joe, expelling his long-held breath: "I'm tickled to death it's all over...
Outside the classroom, his military career marched smartly ahead. He rose rapidly in the Army, winning combat decorations in Viet Nam and later helping the Pentagon set up the Volunteer Army. At 43, he became the youngest brigadier general on active duty at the time, strengthening a long-held presumption among peers and superiors that Dawkins would one day inevitably be Army Chief of Staff...
...Peking: "The Soviets have a golden opportunity, in that Sino-U.S. relations right now are going nowhere." With some irritation, Washington officials point out that the 1982 communique that envisioned the eventual cessation of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan represented a considerable modification by Ronald Reagan of long-held views on the subject of China policy. "There's a growing backlash among policymakers in this town," said one U.S. Government official. "They're saying, 'No matter what we do, there is no way to please the Chinese...
...Jewish conspiracies behind every personal misfortune are notoriously impervious to facts. Most of the Nazis who bought Staeglich's book have ignored the incontrovertible fact that Hitler tried to commit genocide and came dangerously close to succeeding. In The Auschwitz Myth they seek new excuses to justify their long-held beliefs. But for the rational people whose curiosity might be piqued by a book banning, better to criticize the book than forbid...
...foreign journalists based in Jerusalem, the story came less as a surprise than as a confirmation of long-held suspicions. Correspondents often swap stories of intrusions into their telephone calls. They have also noted peculiar mechanical disruptions in the wire transmission of stories that they did not submit to prior censorship because, they contended, the stories did not breach matters of national security...