Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even supplied with U. S. arms, "somehow plough their way through the Balkans and conquer 6,000,000 German soldiers...
...several of these attacks may drive the Yugoslavs from the northern plains into the southern mountains, but there the Yugoslav lack of equipment will be a less serious disadvantage, and they might prolong their resistance a long time, especially if they fall back toward the Greek frontier, whence they can draw reinforcements and supplies. To do that, however, they must guard well their eastern frontier. Directly over the mountains from Sofia to Skoplje run a number of mountain trails. If the Germans can drive across the mountains they can cut off the Yugoslavs from their allies...
German spokesmen also predicted surprises as a result of Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's visit to Berlin (see col 1). But in Berlin, as in Rome, it was admitted that U. S. aid to Britain would probably prolong the war. One German broadcaster verified Germany's concern and coined a phrase in the same sentence: he called President Roosevelt "the hangman of the young nations...
...British people were deliberately subjecting themselves to privations so that the war might end soon, could the British very well allow relaxations of the blockade which might prolong the war? 5) There are worse things than going hungry-i.e., slavery. The sooner the war is won-by the blockade and other means -the sooner the conquered will be free and fed. It would be "false humanity" to feed the occupied territories...
...generation which Fitzgerald celebrated managed to prolong its mental childhood to the age of 21. Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...