Word: protractedness
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1) The Communists might return to the government, and De Gaulle decide to take power by force. In this event, De Gaulle could count on most of the army and about half the police. This would be the worst thing that could happen, because De Gaulle would be in the...
"Open Up the World." Then the world's town meeting saw an awesome spectacle-a Briton in a rage. For almost a year Ernest Bevin's voice had been subdued; illness had weakened him, and the protracted Palestine struggle, in which he often found himself at odds with...
Under protracted questioning, Hiss could offer no additional evidence to back up his contention that Chambers was "Crosley." He was unable to name anyone but his wife who had ever seen them together or anyone who knew Chambers as "Crosley." But he had some angry counter-questions of his own...
Two Views of the Future. A highly placed French official gave this view of the prospect: "With both parties figuring that time is on their side, I expect protracted negotiations, continuing for many weeks.
Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride...