Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Notes to Gospel. Smith has always been a keen student of war, and an advocate of infinite rehearsals and relentless training for battle. In practice, his theories paid off, and many of his battlefield notes have found their way into military training manuals and Marine Corps gospel...
...moved that fast on the surface of the earth. But if all goes well, one man will. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, a 45-year-old Air Force surgeon with the deceptive paunch of a country doctor, the ramrod posture of a professional soldier and the relentless curiosity of a dedicated scientist, plans to ride the Sonic Wind even faster. Space Surgeon Stapp intends to ride at more than 1,000 m.p.h...
...Relentless in his determination to catch the outlaw, Dixit set a specially trained company of Gurkha police combing the jungle for his quarry. As an added precaution, he himself climbed to a mountain shrine in Amarnath to ask help of the god Siva. One day last week, as Man Singh sat resting under a banyan tree near the village of Kakekapura, Siva answered the prayer. A telephone rang in the New Delhi residence of Jawaharlal Nehru, and over it a jubilant voice crowed to India's Prime Minister: "Panditji, this is Home Minister Dixit. We have just killed...
...Sinatra cover story, Goodman conducted no fewer than 50 interviews with Sinatra, his friends and associates. Said Actor Bogart in tribute to Correspondent Goodman's relentless questioning: "Goodman is the kind of guy who sits right across the table from you, looks you square in the eyes and asks you what color your eyes...
...shun controversy for fear of losing some future Government clearance ("If silence is the price of Government service, it is too high a price to pay"), and against scholarly stuffiness ("It must clearly be understood that the scholar does not lose dignity by being intelligible"). He is also a relentless crusader against the growing theory on many U.S. campuses that a democratic education must be equated with the accommodation of mediocrity. "It seems to me," he once said, "that the colleges in this country must once again begin to teach college work and to require college performance . . . The scramble...