Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...
...pointed nails and ringers" and the cracks in his patent-leather shoes. He also records the great man's uncensored political comments. Speaking about the Nazi war criminals, then on trial in Nuremberg, Churchill was typically direct. "Bump 'em off," he growled, "but don't prolong the agony." Evelyn Waugh, an old enemy from school days, receives the worst treatment, and for a telling reason. "In our own way we were both snobs," Beaton admits, "and no snob welcomes another who has risen with him." When the novelist dies in 1966, he writes: "So Evelyn Waugh...
With the case back in his hands, Franklin County Probate Court Judge Sanford Keedy concluded that the onetime avid outdoorsman would rather die than prolong a life devoted mostly to sleeping. The next day, Spring did not receive his regular dialysis treatment. His nurses were outraged. Two of them asked Spring if he wanted to die, and when he reportedly said no, they took the story to the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. A Hartford, Conn., nurse and a Brookline, Mass., doctor, both affiliated with the right-to-life movement, then visited Spring and also emerged with a no to the same...
...aboard a regular flight. Yet her stay was brief: at the airport, which she found to be "a veritable garrison," she and other arriving journalists were held for seven hours before being deported on another flight. But Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photographer on assignment for TIME, managed to prolong his stay. Though he was placed under guard, he was still able to slip away and sneak a few fast photographs after simply refusing to leave the country on a departing plane. His pictures and impressions of the occupied capital appear in the cover section...