Word: protractedness
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Even if the United States continues the arms race and somehow avoids a war, its freedom is already threatened by the arms race itself . . . The freedoms and human values to which we are deeply committed are undermined by the suspicion, fear and frustration resulting from protracted tension. And the need...
Professor P. H. Phenix has correctly observed that again, amid unparalleled success, man has failed to equal the ideal. However, his ideas are somewhat less than "profound," more they are the "re-found" ideas of Plato's Republic. Like Plato, Professor Phenix slips into the habit of assuming that...
As the patient continues in a seemingly inexorable decline, said Dr. Karnofsky, "the state of dying may be protracted by expensive and desperate supportive measures, and the patient is rescued from one life-threatening situation only to face another. Many objective observers, in contemplating this dismal scene, plead with the...
Time for Thinking. Carrying his case for competition and cost-consciousness across the land, Jones in the past year logged 112,687 miles on commercial planes alone; he uses the flight time to catch up on his reading (currently: Protracted Conflict: A Challenging Study of Communist Strategy). When he is...
Hearst's "sure instinct for vulgarity" found first expression on the San Francisco Examiner, a limp rag that his father, George, who had made millions in mining, had taken over on a bad debt. In 1887, at 23, ambitious Willie wheedled the Examiner from his parent. In his very...