Word: protractedness
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* The protracted battle over the appointment of a city manager has embittered and preoccupied the councillors. Since the election of a mayor in the second week of January, debate between the five members supporting Joseph A. DeGuglieimo '29 for manager and the four backing the suspended manager John J. Curry...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise...
And there was never any question of his involvement, an involvement so personal that only his reputation as a scholar can ameliorate charges of prejudice in the historian. On the day after the assassination, a friend remembers talking to him on the telephone. He could barely speak. There were intervals...
Neither nation, fortunately, had enough petroleum, spare parts or ammunition for a protracted, all-out war.
The results of this cancellation are in dispute. Schlesinger says that the "second strike might have protracted the stand on the beachhead from three days to ten." Sorensen writes that "there is no reason to believe that Castro's air force, having survived the first air strike and been...