Word: prolonged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have won it for the Republicans, had he wanted to, but his policy was to prolong the conflict rather than win it at the price of involvement in a general...
...Russians could only counter with demands for nuclear disarmament without controls. Both sides soon realized that the negotiations were futile. But both kept up the pretence. As Harold Stassen has pointed out, the diplomats soon developed a standardized technique: either side would submit an extremely complex proposal that would prolong negotiations, but that they knew would be ultimately found unacceptable. Time was gained for military development at home, and the rejection of plans could be trumpeted abroad as a sign of the opponents' bad faith...
...roads to quagmires, bogging down the halfhearted Royal Army drive against rebel strongholds. Cambodia, under heavy pressure from Red China, declined to participate in the King's plan, and called again for a grandiose, 14-nation conference on little Laos. Such a round table would only prolong the sputtering civil war indefinitely-while giving the Red Chinese a seat and a propaganda forum...
...them from tying Yale for the loop lead and lesson hopes for the championship. The Crimson, which seems consigned to plodding along as well as possible, views every game from here on as "the most important of the season." A victory will keep the varsity in the running and prolong the suspense until next week; a loss would cut down on attendance for the rest of the season...
...matter how clever their diplomacy, the Communists could not hope to harness Africa's exploding forces to their will completely. The West has in Africa economic and political stakes that will not be lightly surrendered. What the Soviets could do-and presently seem determined to do-is to prolong and enhance the turmoil in Africa to destroy Western influence there, content to settle for chaos where they cannot control...