Word: prolonger
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...bitten severely in his fat neck. He bloats with rage after a faculty party when he guessed the word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged and out-snuffed at every turn. The young "Yid scribbler" makes off with his mistress...
...second game was the real thriller. Harvard pressed through most of the 14 minutes of overtime, several times coming hairs away from a winning goal. Both goalies came up with spectacular saves to prolong the suspense...
...Soviets. The Kremlin, in turn, could not afford to appear intractable. At week's end the Peking press suggested that perhaps a few of the Sino-Soviet differences could be settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they can wait until next year." The Russians were less patient. They shot back an answering communiqué warning Peking that "the immediate future" will decide whether the split will widen. Then Moscow gave...
...principle that an attack on one is an attack on all; and when the I.T.U. called strikes at four New York dailies last December, five others voluntarily stopped their presses. Now, said Bradford, Dolly's action "is bound to stiffen the union's position and may well prolong the strike. It is going to be more difficult for us to persuade the unions to arrive at a settlement that will permit all the newspapers to continue...
...which has been bred from selected strains of weak virus. The question has been raised as to the possibility that the weakened virus might mutate back to its wild, virulent state, regaining its deadly ability to attack the human nervous system. It is this question that forced Sabin to prolong his field tests, but today it seems clear that his strains are genetically stable and therefore safe, as now proven in over 140 million vaccinated persons...