Word: protractedness
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The military bureaucracy plans a protracted Vietnam war "at a level acceptable to the American people," I. F. Stone, independent journalist and publisher of his own Washington weekly, charged last night.
Strangely, this schizophrenic existence is essentially painless. Unlike the Quixote legend, illusion rarely distorts the ongoing process of reality. Similarly, reality makes no effort to cancel out the shadows of illusion. Richard Nixon's rhetoric about peace and honor frees him to fight his protracted little war, while exponentially proliferating...
While we have no illusion that our formula is the only feasible one, we do not believe that a great deal of time should be spent on lengthy debate concerning "representation" on the Committee. As we have already emphasized, the Committee will not have the power of decision; the weight...
Hanoi's leadership has been remarkably stable. No other Communist Party in the world has endured so long without a major purge. When it was formed in 1945, the Party's Politburo had eleven full members. Today nine of the eleven remain in power; the missing members are Ho and...
In their political campaigns, the Germans prefer the blitzkrieg to the protracted siege. Thus, though Bundestag elections are scheduled for Sept. 28, it was not until two weeks ago that West German politicians began to hit the hustings. When they did, they often found that a determined besieger had got...