Word: long-drawn-out
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...later come to reflect what he feels is the "more conservative direction" of U.S. society as a whole. Moreover, "the basic fact is that the U.S. is not a country given to revolts." While militant protests will not disappear tomorrow-"it is more likely that there will be a long-drawn-out chorus of whimpers"-Kerr believes that political activism on campus may eventually take on a more peaceable form. "The sit-in," he concludes, "will gradually join the coonskin coat as an interesting symbol of a student age retreating into history...
...supported the Administration's Viet Nam policy. Most agreed with Harvard Sinologist Morton H. Halperin-who at 27 is also an adviser on China to the Defense and State departments-that U.S. military power in Viet Nam has convinced Red China's leaders that they face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival until the American invaders tire of the war and withdraw." China's leaders, he told the committee, are well aware that a U.S. nuclear attack would devastate...
...Justice Department, which has been trying for years to force 22 left-wing organizations to register as Communist fronts under the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, has had little luck to date. Despite the long-drawn-out appeals that have stymied it in most cases, the department believes nonetheless that simply by publishing the facts about such groups, it can warn away many innocents and alert unwary members. With this in mind, it started proceedings last week to force the campus-oriented W.E.B. DuBois Clubs to register as a Communist front...
...frustrating engagements. Says Giap: "The enemy will pass slowly from the offensive to the defensive and be caught in a dilemma; he has to drag out the war in order to win it and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological and political means to fight a long-drawn-out war." What the Communists hope for, clearly, is a Dienbienphu of the spirit...
...Mexican divorces obtained by Americans are entirely worthless. Other divorce-law experts insist that the situation is not all that bad, that a correctly handled Mexican divorce is perfectly valid in most of the 50 states. But if someone contests it later, defending a Mexican quickie-cheapie can prove long-drawn-out, costly and uncertain...