Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Jap armies which will be in a position to throw in reserves. On isolated Pacific islands. U.S. naval power cut off all hope of reinforcement. On big islands like Luzon, and in China and Japan, the enemy will be able to make good his initial losses and greatly prolong the fight...
Semifeudal Latifondisti, powerful landowners long protected by Fascism, saw in independence a chance to prolong their rule. Sicilians in general saw in Italy the source of all their recent grief. They flocked around Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, energetic mouthpiece for Sicilian separatism, and nominal head of the maffia...
...prolong penicillin's stay in the blood, Army Captain Monroe James Romansky and Technician (4th Grade) George E. Rittman suspend the drug in a mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...
While U.S. tanks clanked into the suburbs of Paris, the London News Chronicle's political correspondent, E. P. Montgomery, brooded over a nightmare that worries a lot of other people: by going underground the Nazis might be able to prolong the war indefinitely...
...free China, where those that have not died on the way are left, totally destitute, to their own resources-to the intense annoyance of the local residents. The ones who are too weak to walk remain where they are landed until they starve. Many of them try to prolong their sufferings by consuming inedible or semi-edible substances-hard woody roots . . . a dark green powder, prepared by drying and pounding certain leaves . . . heaps of banana skins and mango stones scavenged in the streets...