Word: protract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They desperately need Republican votes to impose cloture, and to get those votes they may have to accept Dirksen's amendments. Yet they fear that to do this would be to set off an avalanche of amendment attempts that would, at worst, gut the bill and, at best, protract the battle indefinitely. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said he thought the debate might even last through the national nominating conventions and into the fall...