Word: prolonger
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Despite the inability of the paper to pay them, the writers have stuck with The Phoenix, partially because they expect it to succeed. "If we thought a new infusion of money would only prolong the agony, we wouldn't keep on working," senior editor Jean Bergantini Grillo said. "There'd be no point...
...although we have indeed assumed responsibility over there that we cannot honorably evade. We cannot honorably evade our responsibility by trying to make the Saigon government do what we with them could not. Nor can we use that unpopular government of ex-French officers to cover our retreat and prolong the agony of their people. Nor can we honorably leave those military leaders and their civil servants exposed to reprisals...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, announced support for the fast yesterday and blasted President Nixon's war policy. "As far as I can see. President Nixon's present plan is to prolong the war and institutionalize it." he said...
...personal sorrows of families who have lost loved ones in Vietnam, the weariness with the administration's no-win policies- all are ingredients in the nationwide anti-war Vietnam moratorium which, regrettably, will fool many well-meaning citizens into taking part in demonstrations that can only serve to prolong the war in Vietnam or to hasten the moment of national dishonor...
...practice, only in the firm rejection of any political test and on the firm ground of academic integrity and academic liberty. Otherwise, you will surely get, to quote Blake again, "hirelings in the camp, the court, and the university, who would. if they could forever depress mental and prolong corporal...