Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After nine minutes a motion was made, seconded, and defeated by a slim majority to extend debate an additional ten minutes...
Faced with a refusal by trustees to extend visiting hours for women in the dormitories from 9 p.m. until midnight on all Fridays, the editors of the Daily Princetonian decided that "coeducation is the solution for Princeton's social illness. The development of a young man's mind," purred the Tiger cubs disarmingly, "is not only not impeded but is enhanced by normal contact with women." Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen, 45, was not about to be mousetrapped. He reserved comment "until my next press conference" (as yet unscheduled), but he covered the topic pretty well...
With regard to Vietnam, Sidey quoted Johnson as having said, "I'm not going to have American boys fight Asian wars... Why should we fight, when one man can walk into Saigon and depose the government?" Sidey attributed the President's reluctance to extend the Asian war in part to his awe of Red China...
Homans said he opposed the Coop's petition because it "plainly violates the soning code." He told the Council that only a special bill, passed last year by the Massachusetts state legislature, allowed the Coop to build the bridge. Cambridge's building code, he said, prohibits any building to extend beyond the curb line of the City...
...would amount to Communist takeover. Tempting though it would be to avoid jungle neighborhoods like Southeast Asia and the Congo and confine U.S. efforts to the more manageable and powerful parts of the world, writing off any area would simply mean inviting in the Communists-who can always extend their influence more cheaply than the U.S. through local Communist parties...