Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last beginning to understand that Singapore is a supremely vital bastion in the Far Eastern war," Steiger said. "The majority of us have complacently thought, during the last few weeks, that its vaunted impregnability was true in fact as well as in fancy. Its fall may easily prolong the war several years...
...conspicuous absence of a fair treatment clause in the war aims will not only prolong the war but endanger the peace as well. Most Germans seem to have acquiesced in the policy of wholesale aggression, and few of the conquered peoples of Europe would feel any compunction about spooning the aggressors full of the same bitter medicine Hitler is prescribing today. Yet in the long run, Americans have no interest in a policy of revenge. The eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-tooth principle of justice will add explosive to a future European powder-keg, and our only permanent interest...
Direct hit was the verbal shell that the President aimed at the Axis with the promise of U.S. aid in the Battle of the Atlantic. Doing their best to minimize the effectiveness of the speech, Germany and Italy charged that the U.S. was playing an "imperialistic" game, trying to prolong the war, to drag Latin America into it by the heels. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Nazis said, had answered Roosevelt before he spoke by declaring that U.S. convoys of British ships would...
...Leslie Oliver looked around for a formula by which unhappy machinists could back down without losing face, and a Senate Committee investigating the defense program threatened to call disputants to Washington, West Coast Communists slyly sprinkled salt in wounds, did what they could to prolong the ruckus. Still stranded on this labor shoal at week's end were a total $500,000,000 worth of Navy contracts (27 destroyers, four cruisers, 43 auxiliaries) and a Maritime Commission program of 74 freighters and three passenger-cargo ships...
...played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition among composers for the few outlets Mexican music publishing offers, a song has to be very good to be heard at all, and Mexicans tend to prolong the youth of their limited number of songs almost indefinitely...