Word: prolonging
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...same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth at 3 a.m.: "How are you, sir? Sorry I woke you ... Are you really so well off here that you want to prolong your stay indefinitely? We are only interested in getting ... the facts . . . [then] you will return home to work for the Poland you love so much...
...miles of friendly Russian border, Red China may withstand limited economic sanctions. It can feed itself, after a fashion. It can maintain lightly armed armies on its own resources. With its arsenals (especially in Manchuria) unbombed and its overland supply lines to Russia open, it can probably prolong indefinitely the kind of war it is waging in Korea. But the U.N. embargo will deny Red China easy access to important warmaking materials, will burden her already strained industrial economy...
...Gaus--the theory being almost exactly opposite to that of the Economics committee. "If the theories and informative data of Government 1 were presented in a more general manner," he said, "the kit for advanced work would be deficient of tools. A general education in government would only prolong the concentrator's materialization as a competent political critic...
...movie's inevitable love interest might have proved a stumbling block; instead, it gives the story a lift. One of Gwenn's friendly neighbors, U.N. Translator Dorothy McGuire, inadvertently receives and passes some of the queer, thus catches the eye of T-man Burt Lancaster. Eager to prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance also serves the script...
...only thing wrong with "Cinderella" is that it devotes too much time to the activities of the mice. Versatile fellows though they may be, they are super-imposed on the original fairytale, and prolong the picture somewhat. But this is only a minor fault, since most of the time the mice are entertaining...