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...countries have reported seeing "yellow rain" fall from the skies. Shortly afterward, victims on the ground have suffered burning sensations, convulsions and massive internal bleeding. Many have died painful deaths. Still, there had never been scientific evidence that the poison came from the Soviet Union. So the U.S. has withheld any official accusation of Soviet violations of a 56-year-old international agreement banning chemical weapons...
...judgment that critics and public alike have withheld ever since Catlin exhibited his Indian studies in 1837 in New York City, in a hall that he rather grandiosely labeled the Indian Gallery. In his own day nobody of any consequence thought of him as a major painter-least of all Catlin himself. Even though he had established himself by the 1820s as a workaday miniaturist-portraitist in Philadelphia, he freely conceded that others were better at what he called "the limited and slavish branch of the arts in which I am wasting my life and substance for a bare living...
Verr said he may now file a civil suit against Chafin in connection with the incident. "Based on what the judge found. I think a civil suit would sail through." Verr said, adding he would be more likely to file suit if Harvard withheld financial aid funds or took other action against...
...session develops emotional focus, the American public emerges as an enemy to be distrusted, or more subtly, as a parent who has withheld love and approval so long that the veteran can think only to writhe in frustration, or lash back...
Mann would have withheld his cool wrath from the Nazis in his letter to the University of Bonn. There would have been no greeting from Emerson to Whitman "at the beginning of a great career"no Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot ("my best to you and your lovely wife, whoever she may be"). Had St. Paul decided to speak instead of write, the New Testament would have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...