Word: prolonging
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...fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured violence against any country when it's to our interest...
...Long to Prolong? A vigorous defense of what he called "aggressive or extraordinary means of treatment" to prolong life came from Dr. David A. Karnofsky, of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who was recently called in as a consultant on the treatment of House Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have won it for the Republicans, had he wanted to, but his policy was to prolong the conflict rather than win it at the price of involvement in a general...
...Russians could only counter with demands for nuclear disarmament without controls. Both sides soon realized that the negotiations were futile. But both kept up the pretence. As Harold Stassen has pointed out, the diplomats soon developed a standardized technique: either side would submit an extremely complex proposal that would prolong negotiations, but that they knew would be ultimately found unacceptable. Time was gained for military development at home, and the rejection of plans could be trumpeted abroad as a sign of the opponents' bad faith...
...roads to quagmires, bogging down the halfhearted Royal Army drive against rebel strongholds. Cambodia, under heavy pressure from Red China, declined to participate in the King's plan, and called again for a grandiose, 14-nation conference on little Laos. Such a round table would only prolong the sputtering civil war indefinitely-while giving the Red Chinese a seat and a propaganda forum...