Word: protractedness
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THE SUPER TUESDAY installment of the Democratic primary serial provided some exciting new twists in a campaign that has already seen its share of remarkable reverses. First, Fritz Mondale seemed mighty and invincible. Then, Gary Hart (D--Colo.) seemed confident and unstoppable. Now it looks like we're in store...
Fortunately, the protracted nature of our discussions did not produce total paralysis. The aircraft carriers Eisenhower and Kennedy with their battle groups totaling some 30 ships were
It is true that Nixon chose not to avail himself of the impeachment process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically...
As the military continued its protracted postmortem, Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raúl Alfonsin, was trying to revive a civil and useful relationship with Britain. For weeks Alfonsin's government and that of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been exchanging messages through Brazilian and...
Andropov's compatriots barely had time to form much of an impression of their leader?not, at least, in his latest role. They knew him well enough as chief of the dreaded KGB for 15 years and as a man accustomed to having his own way. Whatever misgivings they might...