Word: protractedness
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Behind a locked door in Vatican City waits a present for Pope Paul VI that may conceivably please its recipient but has already shocked many who have seen photographs of it. The gift is a large (about 71 ft. by 12 ft.) portrait of His Holiness, painted in a semi...
Robert Jackson was, like his wife, from downstate Illinois. However, while she had enjoyed the freedom and stability of growing up nestled among a large well-knit clan in Harrisburg, he had been abandoned at an early age in the river town of East St. Louis. The demands of survival...
Protracted Striptease. There was an air of anticlimax when he confronted the press in Gracie Mansion, for months of rumors about the change had given it the tedium of a protracted striptease. Nonetheless, the room was jammed with 17 movie and television cameras and dozens of reporters. It was a...
Fear and deep sullen hatred are everywhere evident among Bengalis. Few will talk to reporters in public, but letters telling of atrocities and destroyed villages are stuck in journalists' mailboxes at Dacca's Hotel Intercontinental. In the privacy of his home one night, a senior Bengali bureaucrat declared: "This will...
In the months since open conflict erupted, nothing has softened Yahya's stand. In fact, in the face of talk about protracted guerrilla fighting, mounting dangers of war with India, and an already enormous cost in human suffering, the general has only stiffened. Should India step up its aid to...