Word: prolonging
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...struggle, which soon consumed their lives, and reminds us of the horror of the Vietnam years. He quotes at length from the cold government form letters which responded with hazy platitudes to the Mullens' anguish. At one point, Peg resorted to a dictionary to look up the word "prolong"; she was trying to determine how long it took Michael...
...there appear to be exactly 22 steps, but that in the masterful final scene of the descent of those stairs, a count of the steps taken by the various characters indicates that they go down 37 or 38 steps. Hitchcock, of course, deceives us visually, stretching the stairs to prolong the complex emotional interplay of the scene." Nobody's arguing...
...Indira Gandhi's latest steps to preserve her firm rule over India's destiny. At the annual convention of her ruling Congress Party in Chandigarh, 150 miles north of New Delhi, Mrs. Gandhi announced, to no one's great surprise, that she would ask Parliament to prolong the state of emergency she declared last June and to postpone next month's elections for another year. Since the Congress Party enjoys a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha (lower house), and since about 30 opposition Members of Parliament are still under detention, both measures will sail...
Despite anguished warnings from President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Congress refused last spring to approve a request for $722 million in emergency military aid to prolong the defense of doomed South Viet Nam. Last month, further reasserting Congress's war-powers rights, the Senate prohibited the use of this fiscal year's defense funds for additional U.S. intervention in Angola's civil war. In so doing, however, Congress stirred concern that its new assertiveness in foreign policymaking could hamstring the Executive branch...
...patients are usually elderly, but they are always dying, and doctors say that to prolong their lives is expensive and painful to physicians, nurses, family and the patients. The designation applies to as many as two patients on a ward of 40, they...