Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured by the Rebels during the war as part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion as to whether the rancher actually intended the capture, and this suffices to prolong the revenge for three acts, while the merits of the case are aired with much vigor but little consequences. The trouble is that the actors all get more worked up than the audience. This reviewer, at least, could not force himself to look upon the various murders, either in their...
Economically, the outlook was dim. Food shortages would reach a crisis point by May. Last week, strikes protesting food shortages flared briefly in Vienna factories. The Reds agitated to prolong the strikes, circulated an ominous rumor among the workers: "Watch your step. Austria's next, and you have to account for yourself when the Communists take over...
Unavailability of Sanders for the November weekend forced HDC to seek an audience elsewhere. Once turned out of the theater, the group decided to prolong its exodus, and has negotiated for performances at Boston University, Boston College and Wheaton...
...focused on the less happy, indeed the downright harrowing, aspects of authority. As Brigadier General K. C. Dennis of the Air Forces (ably played by Paul Kelly) sees it, unless the jet-plane factories deep inside the Reich are swiftly destroyed, jets will soon cover the sky and immeasurably prolong the war. So, day after day, he orders the bombing of those factories, though his losses are appalling and the thought of the losses tears him apart...
...Announced: two promising new treatments for cancer of the prostate, which kills some 22,000 Americans annually. Yale's Dr. Clyde L. Deming reported that massive doses of the female hormone estrogen (instead of the small doses previously used) help four cases out of five and often prolong life. At the University of Chicago, three researchers found that a drug called ethyl carbamate is also effective; it relieves pain, reduces the size of the cancer. But unless cautiously given, the drug may be fatal...