Word: prolonger
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...supposed to prolong the life of batteries. The bureau had tested it three times, ruled it worthless three times...
...Years Too Soon. Faced with such facts, U.S. corporations have awakened to the acute need to help prolong the lives of their executives. As the tempo of industrial life speeded up during the war so did the death rate. In General Motors alone, 189 of its top management group died in five war years. Good executives scarce enough in wartime, have become even harder to get in the postwar boom. Companies which once regarded an executive as expendable but fortunately replaceable have changed their thinking...
...this point Rolfe passed himself off as a painter of religious subjects, and soon had a commission to decorate a shrine at Holywell. With due care he managed to prolong the work for more than two years. Finally the priest had to show him the door. Furious, Rolfe claimed he had been cheated, joined the staff of a local magazine and filled its columns with vituperations against the priest. What he couldn't get into the paper he put in poison-pen letters that flooded the community. The paper folded; Rolfe went back to London...
...fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained I'm Just Wild About Harry and Love Will Find a Way, and two or three of the new tunes are pleasant enough. But the score lacks class, and if the dancing sometimes...
Remer's hour of glory-which eventually won him a sensational advancement from major to major general-helped prolong the war ten months. In the blood bath of revenge that followed, 5,000 Germans were arrested, tortured and killed...