Word: prolongation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petrocelli cupped a feeble pop-up for the final out, the crowd spilled on-to the field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
...teachers. In frantic bargaining, the union won an extra weekly hour of classroom preparation time for teachers in ghetto elementary schools, but allowed its demand for more power over disruptive students to be turned over to a study committee. At week's end the union threatened to prolong the walkout when fresh disputes broke out over the contract wording of some of the oral agreements, such as for special programs in ghetto schools...
Through the Sidewalk. Also spun out by centrifugation are platelets, the tiny disks involved in clotting. There is still no effective way to prolong their useful life beyond four to six hours, says the center's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr. So, as soon as they are extracted, the center rushes them to nearby hospitals, notably Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where there are always patients whose platelet count has been cut dangerously low by the drugs needed to treat their leukemia. Still other clotting factors, such as those needed by hemophilia victims, are precipitated...
Each year, 160,000 U.S. men die from coronary-artery disease before the age of 70. Many doctors have suspected for some time that a good number of them could prolong their lives by changing their eating habits-but proving the proposition was another matter. One reason: nobody knew whether it was possible to persuade a sufficient number of men leading normal lives to go on a low-fat diet and stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving...
...undoubtedly watching the debate and drawing some conclusions from it. If we were to see 100,000 people marching in Hanoi calling for peace, we would think that the war was over." To Rusk, as to many others, the inescapable conclusion is that U.S. dissenters are helping to prolong the very war they decry...