Word: protractedness
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Pig Pictures. Arriving a day ahead of the hurriedly assembled Vietnamese delegation, Johnson grumbled a bit about the weather being unfit for swimming-though McNamara braved the surf anyway. Instead, the President held a protracted council of war with General Westmoreland, whom he had met only once before and was...
When New York Customs men put the arm on twelve questionable books mailed from France (sample titles: Sodom, Lust, Busy Bodies') and kept them impounded for five months, the importer, one Mel Friedman, decided to fight back. "Having concluded that the Government suppressed the books for an unlawfully protracted...
Teachers' unions are also objectionable because teachers, unlike factory workers or coal miners, are working with human beings. The "things" they "produce," educated people, can be irrevocably damaged by protracted haggling. Mothers do not try to solve the problems of parenthood by striking; teachers, too, should look for other means...
Day after day, congressional leaders and Administration aides streamed into the White House for closed-door conferences and confidential briefings. Hour after hour, Lyndon Johnson consulted earnestly with his most trusted advisers in the Cabinet Room. Night after night, the President pored over memos arguing for and against the choice...
It all adds up to an ideal recipe for bringing out the ham in the nation's press. Some 40 reporters from around the U.S. were covering the trial last week, and still more were expected. Until the jury was impaneled late last week after protracted argument, the press...