Word: prolongers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy in western Europe. It would give Russia a fine propaganda point; one which the Communists have already used effectively. The refusal of U.S. help may make things temporarily more tough for the Spanish people, but ERP or ECA or recognition or alliance will serve very nicely to indeterminately prolong their suffering...
...Abundant Evidence." Thus cheered on by the defense, Prosecutor Dimiter Georgiev saw no reason to prolong the trial. He produced no documentary evidence of the espionage charge and cut his witnesses short. Said he: "The evidence is abundant and clear." He demanded the death penalty for four of the defendants, heavy prison terms for the others...
...other roles, Jose Ferrer, as the Dauphin, is rather interesting, and Francis L. Sullivan, as Cauchon, is menacing enough; but since his part in the plot called for him to prolong my stay at the Astor long after my interest had left, I'm not saying anything good about...
...shutting down, the Met's 38-man board of directors blamed the unions. The Met management has claimed for a long time that the unions "have us over a barrel," and that the unions prolong negotiations so long that when contracts are finally signed the Met has little time to plan its season properly. But for all its mutterings about the iron hand of labor and the burden of its big payroll, the Met management itself had not done all it might to simplify its staging, by using unit sets instead of cumbersome pieces that take...
...place in society, of his duty to his patients? Who is he to deny the old man the pleasure of passing the reviewing stand . . . saluting the colors, and, if God is good, falling dead at the long anticipated climax of his life? Who is any man to presume to prolong life at the expense of the sacrifice of every bit of its romance, bite, and color...