Word: length
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...case was for a time one of the most hotly contested student issues at Harvard, but the debate died down because of the protacted length of the investigation by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), a quasi-judicial body...
Popular myth has it that college undergraduates will go to almost any length to have sex. But a recent study suggests that there is more than a kernel of truth in that statement...
Lord's most indelible portraits involve the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution. An actress talks at length about being forced to drop out of a school for the gifted when her librarian father was accused of being a "rightist." She confesses to Lord that her resentment hardened into a "hate so unnatural that it could sever the bond between a loving father and a loving child." Not until she was sent to collect her father's ashes from the prison where he died did she come to see that it was the regime, not her father, that...
...sought a less direct and costly method to have its way. Where military force could still do the trick cost effectively, the U.S. was willing to use it, as in Grenada and Panama. But in Nicaragua, wittingly or not, Washington stumbled on an arm's-length policy: wreck the economy and prosecute a long and deadly proxy war until the exhausted natives overthrow the unwanted government themselves. For Americans, the cost was minimal. True, bruising annual battles over Central America splintered Congress, and the Iran-contra scandal hobbled Ronald Reagan's second term, but hardly any U.S. soldiers were dying...
...Harvard novice boats rounded out the sweep with both the first and second boats winning by over a length in their races...