Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsibility, are very much to blame for their stubbornness in refusing to remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly what needs to be done would be surprised at the response...
...Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Maestro Siqueiros had come to San Miguel for a lecture series, then returned for one week each month to direct the students' work on a new mural. Increasingly excited over the project, Siqueiros wanted to work full time to complete it. Campanella, anxious to prolong the publicity the Maestro's presence was bringing his school, balked...
...each individual case, the doctors have to make a grim decision. Should they prolong a life that is sure to be "unsatisfactory?" Should they, by prolonging life, place a crushing burden on the patient's family? Should they, in desperate cases when everything else has been tried, use a drug so dangerous that it may kill the patient immediately? Such questions have no single answer. The doctors decide each case separately, considering such matters as the painfulness of the treatment and the patient's chance for happiness during his possible remission...
...full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over. The alarm bell sounded. Time...
...which market prices are set by purely competitive mechanisms. But farmers have shown an appalling ignorance of classical economic theory by failing to "leave the industry" in depressed times. Ever since 1920, there have been more farmers in the country than farming needs. Some people argue that subsidy plans prolong this disequilibrium; others say that government regulation of farming is necessary to make the farmer's life tolerable and that the disquilibrium would never end anyway...