Word: prolonged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medicine. Atomic diagnosis and treatment of cancer will so prolong life that the U.S. must dump its theory that a working life ends...
...doctor has no right to speed a patient's end by euthanasia, or "mercy killing," no matter how hopeless his condition. But neither, declares Dr. Francis T. Hodges, 48, a general practitioner in San Francisco, has the doctor any right to prolong a "hopeless" patient's life by extraordinary feats of medicine...
Last week South Africa fought a bitter and unsuccessful campaign against renewing the mandate of a three-man U.N. commission which has been investigating apartheid (racial segregation). When the U.N.'s Political Committee voted, 37 to 7 (with 13 abstentions), to prolong the commission's life, South Africa's U.N. Delegate W. C. du Plessis abruptly left the building and began a boycott which, he said, will last at least as long as the present U.N. session...
...Chinese Communist government, every occasion on which we negotiate with it is regarded by our citizens as a humiliation, and in the Communist capitals as a source of fiendish satisfaction. Negotiations at Geneva concerning U.S. prisoners are being artificially dragged out by Peking's envoys merely to prolong the delight of seeing de facto recognition enforced on the "stubborn" Americans...
General Education, as practiced at Harvard and elsewhere, serves only to coddle or here the modern undergraduate and "prolong adolescence as far as it can be stretched," Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, has declared...