The stinging shot, the lucky save, the protracted tingle... " Before last night's game against the Flyers, Evgeni Nabokov, the Sharks' 25-year-old goalie, pondered the above excerpt from "Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov on being a soccer goalie at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, in the 1920's.
The police gained access to the apartment just after noon following protracted negotiations through the door with the suspect's mother, who uses a wheelchair.
CBS stations were temporarily removed from cable systems in millions of homes in major cities — including New York and Los Angeles — about midnight on Monday, after protracted negotiations between CBS and Time Warner Cable over fees collapsed.
Mervyn King was talking of a "slow and protracted recovery" only this morning.
If this isn't protracted war, what is? Unpleasant thoughts on a lovely, starry night.
To me, single life has always been about protracted adolescence -- without a curfew, parking at inspiration point, midnight steak dinners out with the boys.
Asked about the deadlock in Washington, Draghi said the shutdown, which began at midnight yesterday, "is a risk if it is protracted".
(1)– (7) Specifically, it is not clear if short protracted courses of RT provide similar results to longer courses, and if lower dose RT can provide palliation of symptoms and survival similar to higher dose RT.
And so in place of Keats's exclamatory "Now more than ever seems it rich to die, / To cease upon the midnight with no pain," we have John Updike's cri de coeur of protracted diminishment.
White House talks with Republicans failed to reach an agreement to end the budget crisis on Thursday evening, but a marked change in tone from the particiants suggested a deal to end the protracted standoff could finally be in sight.
