Word: prolonged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union proposed Jan. 25 as the date for a Big Four foreign ministers' conference in Berlin. Britain, France and the U.S. had suggested Jan. 4, but probably will go along with the Russian date without much complaint. U.S. diplomats guessed that the Russian stalling was an effort to prolong the French National Assembly's delay in acting on the European Defense Community...
...Extreme pessimism regarding cancer of the lung is no longer justified, said the University of Tennessee's Dr. Duane Carr. Even in cases which are found too late for surgery to help, deep X-ray treatments and drugs (nitrogen mustard and triethylene melamine) will relieve pain and prolong life...
Women who do not want to be widowed can prolong their husbands' lives "with measured doses of enlightened nagging," an official of the American Cancer Society suggested at the annual meeting last week in Manhattan. Said Frank Kramer, director of field relations...
...immigration authorities, he had unsuccessfully pleaded that sure death faced him in Yugoslavia as an opponent of Marshal Tito's Communist regime. His plea for sanctuary was refused for lack of supporting evidence. In custody, he had tried drastic measures, including slashing his wrists with a razor, to prolong his stay. As prison officials figured it, Pavlovich had attacked Thompson in an attempt to get at least a long U.S. jail sentence before a waiting Yugoslav ship took him home...
...production or expand their markets. To increase milk drinking, Davis hinted that prices should be lowered. Another way to cut surpluses is to encourage such new methods of marketing as concentrated and frozen milk. Said he: "If something becomes outmoded by a new development, let's not prolong the agony of making the shift...