Word: protractedness
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The task of achieving a real peace promises to be infinitely more protracted. After years of futile, ruinous enmity toward Israel, the Arabs conceivably might decide that their best hope for the future lies in neighborly relations between the heirs of Isaac and Ishmael. More probably, envenomed by their latest...
The election of senior class officers was one of the year's major events; the CRIMSON's coverage lasted for days, culminating in a tally of the vote for every candidate. Lower ranking faculty-members lived with a protracted system for getting tenure that kept them even less secure than...
"I AM not a stranger to fear, but I have never endured fear as intense or as protracted as I experienced that night. I was so frightened I could hear myself sweat."
But other decisions came only after protracted discussion. For the third time in a row, an HDC meeting began without a quorum of members present, so voting on the constitutional amendments was stymied until enough members arrived to make a quorum.
Adapted from the 1951 Broadway hit, The Fourposter, the musical retains the play's central prop, though here the bed is on a turntable and sometimes spins around like a carrousel. As Director Gower Champion realized, every bit of added motion is essential, since the plot is mired in...