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The Guardian of London, apparently taking its cue from the New York Times , led Monday with a claim that President Clinton had been misled by intelligence reports that President Milosevic "would buckle at the first show of high-tech military might."
And the quaintly elaborate capitalization--Buckle "found his way into ...
, home to police officers and firemen; to Broken Arrow, Okla., on the buckle of the Bible Belt.
Cell growth continues beyond this point however forcing the fiber shaft to supercoil into a free standing helix that contracts into a ball-like form [ 6 ] . Filaments that grow on the surface of a ball can buckle and initiate the outgrowth of fibers that remain anchored to the ball surface [ 7 ] . These too supercoil when they reach a critical length or when they encounter an external impediment to their twisting.
He may have thought that some countries would be afraid of his bluster and intimidation, they would withdraw the use of their bases or buckle under his intimidation.