Word: drawn-out
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...demagogic weaknesses," Guy said. Germany was spending enormous sums in constructing its army, France was spending large amounts for social reform. To arm itself effectively for battle, a nation cannot afford the luxury of granting its workers higher wages shorter, hours, and the privilege of engaging in long drawn-out strikes...
...believe that peace is alone consistent with what seems to be our American determination to keep out of this war," Holmes declared. Listing the three possibilities of a German victory, an Allied victory, and a long drawn-out struggle to the death, he condemned all as destructive and insane, saying that "the problem of dealing with Hitler seems to me to be easy compared with the problem of dealing with the ultimate consequences of this...
Blitzkrieg, 72-hour shock, or heartbreaking drawn-out death struggle, who would...
...touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash or so of moving drama. The picture fails, if at all, in being too long, occasionally too slow. It has departed at times from the moving picture formula of pictorial action in an attempt to gain nuance by drawn-out monologues and dialogues, which ordinarily succeed only when surcharged by the vitality of flesh and blood players...
...less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo, the U. S. followed suit. Finally the Pan-American Conference of 1934 at Montevideo took up the question, arranged a truce a year later, then began its long, drawn-out negotiations...