Word: all-out
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...pattern has been unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched off when two ordinary teams suddenly find their niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
...when the peanut butter is hitting the fan, all-out warfare is being waged against a distinct community on campus and no one seems to mind...
Brescia said the mouse appearances are "a growing problem" and that the dorm is prepared "to start an all-out war" on the mice...
After non-military alternative are exhausted, conventional forces will be the primary deterrents. Americans must therefore be willing to lose lives in conventional battles. That, from my perspective, is a more palatable option than killing the whole planet in an all-out thermonuclear...
...little later, in a semipolitical setting, television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, confessing to a sin or two here and there, employed the same strategy but different tactics, opting for all-out bawling on camera. And, just as it worked for the fictional Elmer Gantry, so, in a rare case of art imitating art, it rewarded Elmer's analogue in real life...