Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furiously opposed) appointee to the bench. Grew up in poverty in Alabama, studied his law at the University of Alabama, built a practice on hard-luck clients, served briefly as police magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional law, but studied incessantly, developed diamond-hard technical knowledge, has held the line...
...tool of the Western imperialists and capitalists. I recited fully the lesson I had spent a year and a half learning." What made tough, hawk-nosed Ignotus accept his lesson? Says he: "Koestler is right. The emphasis is put on the psychological part of the treatment, the dogged, merciless, relentless job of indoctrination. But the torture-maybe Koestler underestimated that. The torture is horror...
...stricken parents, at first the object of great sympathy, proved to be shifty witnesses. Stubbornly they insisted that Wilma could not possibly have been involved with any man except the young police sergeant she-was engaged to marry. She was a "santarellina" (little saint), sobbed Mamma Montesi. Only under relentless hammering from the judge...
...squeal of a mouse. Second, it may go into a "paradoxical phase," and respond more vigorously to weak, unimportant stimuli than to strong ones. Finally, in what Pavlov called the "ultraparadoxical" phase, everything is upside down-a man who has been hounded mercilessly day and night by a relentless police interrogator may suddenly begin to look upon his tormentor as his friend and protector...
...they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters...