Word: protractedness
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The bathroom is the most important room in any house. It is the one place where people can be nude, solitary and mute for any protracted period. It is a refuge for all reasons, serving also as laundry room, solarium, greenhouse and primping parlor, a place for delousing pets, deep...
"In fact, the only publication which has not received it seriously is my old alma mater, Newsweek," Karl says a little huffily. The Newsweek review, which did not mention Fleming's former connection with the magazine, called the book "about as interesting--and titillating--as a protracted Merv Griffin show...
The city has met its growing financial needs by using fiscal gimmicks, such as postponing city contributions to employee pension programs. To get by, the city simply borrows - and borrows and borrows. Its total debt burden hit $13.7 billion this year, and the city has begun issuing new short-term...
Fisher's mother's side was also professional although not as formidable. Still, it produced Katharine Dummer, a woman who, Fisher claims fondly, would have been the vice president of a giant corporation if she had lived in an age that was more hospitable to women. As it was, she...
Without American support, the Cambodian civil war would have ended by now. Any American aid the Congress approves will only go to maintaining an unpopular, corrupt regime and forcing an inevitable loss of life. In fact, it is precisely the rigid and self-serving nature of the American policy which...