He had written articles about the migrants passing through Salinas, and worked at menial jobs around California for months during his protracted university years, but The Grapes of Wrath proved radically different.
They are wrongly being used to cover for teachers for "protracted periods", which deprives children of proper teaching and puts pressure on support staff.
Mr. Tenet has accepted the criticism, explaining that he was distracted by his protracted struggle for Senate confirmation and other matters.
For 19 seconds, ABC believed his protracted analysis of the green was of secondary importance to Woods's reading his yardage chart.
One example of this syndrome is found in the person of former Senator Rick Santorum, who, in his protracted quest for the Republican presidential nomination, displayed a unique inability to appreciate that America had sent him the message that it didn't want him to be president.
His strategy for a protracted nuclear war -- based on weapons modernization, protection of governmental leaders from a first strike and an early version of Star Wars -- effectively beggared the Soviet war machine.
"He did not give up his position, which opened possibilities for protracted internal strife between clans internal to the Ifoghas", Baz Lecocq, a history professor at Ghent University in Belgium, tells Think Africa Press.
Mr Gingrich may win the contest after that, in South Carolina on the 21st, keeping his hopes alive, but Mr Romney is better prepared for a protracted campaign.
