Word: protractedness
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Hints of Force. In Elisabethville, Tshombe blithely made plans to celebrate Katanga's own independence day-July 11, marking the date in 1960 when the province seceded. The U.N.'s Congo chief, patient Robert Gardiner, is increasingly exasperated at the deadlock, has dropped strong hints that his units...
Protracted Woo. All these efforts to destroy the prevailing Filipino attitude of bahala na (easygoing fatalism) depend largely on U.S. help. As an incentive to foreign investors. Macapagal has made the peso convertible, with good results-the first four months of this year show a $23 million surplus in balance...
Despite his recent needling of the U.S., Macapagal last week sent Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez to the U.S., aboard the first jet flight of Philippine Air Lines from Manila to San Francisco. After protracted State Department wooing, Pelaez agreed to fly on to Washington for informal White House talk. Pelaez...
Little Summits. The relaxation was achieved through nervous and protracted secret meetings between members of the Secret Army and the Moslem F.L.N. The connecting link in the little "summit'' held in suburban villas and city apartments was liberal Europeans such as Marcel Baujard, mayor of Blida, and Jacques...
Kirchner's Trio of 1954, for violin, cello and piano, a better work because it brings its various emotions together more skillfully. Its serenity is more abstract than the Sonata's and shares with the contrasting eruptive mood, a deep intensity; outbursts from the cello in the second movement resemble...