Word: protractedness
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MacDonald, Britain's first socialist Prime Minister, "Mac" MacDonald as Governor General in Malaya spurred the far-reaching social and economic reforms that helped turn the tide there against the Communists. Later he served as Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, last year was handed the delicate task of presiding...
Instead, it seems likely that Moscow will accelerate its "peace" offensive; this could mean a protracted period of pleading for negotiations, perhaps coupled with sweeping proposals for European disengagement, in the hope that time and soft words might erode the capitalist enemy's determination to the point where Moscow...
One of the lesser benefits of the protracted Minneapolis newspaper strike last spring (TIME, June 15) was the birth of a third paper, the Daily Herald. Hastily flung together by Maurice McCaffrey, a Minneapolis adman, the error-prone and amateurish Herald rose to a circulation of 140,000 simply because...
On cricket bats, polo sticks and tea, Britain and the European Common Market reached full accord last week. Such essential adjuncts to the British way of life will continue to be imported duty-free from India and Ceylon if Britain joins the Market. Despite such progress, the protracted negotiations for...
In Minneapolis, the bitter strike against John Cowles's Star and Tribune finally ended last week−having set a new and dismal record. The two papers had been silenced for 113 days−nearly two weeks longer than the previous record, established during a 1953 strike of the...