Word: protractedness
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The central figures are Anne Duncan, a waitress and technically a virgin, and Zeke Daniels, the braggartly buffoon who marries her. There are assorted relatives: Anne has a weak, churchly mother, Zeke a managing mother and a popinjay father who struts in Klan robes. They are presented in a protracted...
King's second exhortation that "militancy must not lead to a distrust of white people" has not been heeded. For, the failure of non-violent strategy among whites has bred protracted frustration among Negroes, helped justify Negro militancy and irrational Negro racism which are full of suspicion and hate for...
Not since Little Eva had there been quite such a deathbed scene-and at week's end the first session of the 88th Congress was still in the protracted process of breathing its last.
Although the report was speedily passed, the psychology society constitution prompted a protracted debate on the procedure for considering constitutions. Many members felt they had not been given, sufficient time to study the document and objected to its immediate presentation. Others argued, successfully, that the Society should not be made...
Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the...