Word: protraction
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This sort of comedy of the inhumanly vindictive antagonism by which a man and woman protract the ultimate inevitable plunge into each other's arms has, even at its silliest, some basis in truth. It is by no means new 1) to identify this skirmishing of the sexes with class warfare, 2) to resolve all class distinctions in the clinch. The one thing that gives this thousandth version any novelty is Alan Ladd's triple-chilled proficiency at handling all the tricks of making love in reverse gear. This is as interesting to look at, in a simpleminded...
...Russians saw their danger well (see col. 1). They hoped that the Red Army would protract the game, keep the Germans from reaching the Volga until winter froze the stakes. Said Pravda: "Every minute shows that the Germans are gambling their entire fortune on the present campaign...
...Curel has attained the greatest success. More recently, M. Bruyerre has scored a success with "En Paix," a study of lunatic asylums. In "La Clairiere," Mm. Lucien Descaves and Maurice Donnay present in a very clear manner the social problems that confront our society, and show the difficulties that protract their solution...