Word: prolongations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parliamentary Point. Said Admiral Joy: "He [the enemy] wants all the advantages of a de facto cease-fire so that he can prolong the armistice negotiations without cost to himself. He wants immediate relief from our inexorable military pressure-the pressure which would be an 'incentive' to arrive quickly at agreement on other items...
...matter how foolish the attempt to maintain the status quo may be, I would like to prolong that segment of it known as Harvard University as long as possible in its independent position. No matter how dearly beloved the old College football team (rah, rah) may be to the hearts of alumni, if that group is unable to support its emotional indulgences, students currently enrolled should not be expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which...
...Pathologist Robert P. Morhardt told the American Osteopathic Association: doctors should not try to prolong the life of a patient with an incurable ailment...
Since agreement on armistice terms has to precede cessation of hostilities, delay in initiating a meeting and in reaching agreement will prolong the fighting and increase the losses...
...same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth at 3 a.m.: "How are you, sir? Sorry I woke you ... Are you really so well off here that you want to prolong your stay indefinitely? We are only interested in getting ... the facts . . . [then] you will return home to work for the Poland you love so much...