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While serving to ward off enemy fleets and bolster Earth's defenses against most conventional assaults, it proved insufficiently powerful against large asteroids and small moons, as when in the book the moon Iapetus was hurled at Earth to " crack it open like a bullet through butter.
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While serving his sentence, he studied philosophy.
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While in Paris, he used that of ' Monsieur Ramboz ', whilst in London he signed off his letters as ' A.
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While building a studio off his house in Granada, Lee cut off the tip of his finger on his right hand.
While the goats and pigs have all died off, feral cats and house mice are still present.
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While Walter holds a knife to her throat, Luis shoots and wounds him, with Julia finishing him off.
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While Henry in the south cooperated with the rebel Senate of Rome, Frederick I in the north blocked the passes of the Alps and cut off all communication between the Pope, then living in Verona, and his German adherents.
While not destitute after the campaign — he had a small disability pension from the Navy — Heinlein turned to writing in order to pay off his mortgage.
While on tour again in the UK in 1965, Orbison broke his foot falling off a motorcycle in front of thousands of screaming fans at a race track, and performed his show that evening in a cast.
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