Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of the masters' decision, however, certain elementary physical changes will be necessary. To build Dunster House in 1929-30 cost about $3,500,000. To reproduce it now would cost $7-10,000,000. Thus, fireplaces and costly chimneys will yield to the relentless pressure of economy; the cherished luxury of private bathrooms will go the way of chinaware at meals; the system of small, quiet entries will probably be replaced by long hallways...
...hours later, the clock was still running, still keeping perfect time, but something was wrong. Two other clock mechanics went up the tower to see why the great clock was no longer striking the hours. There, his long brown work smock caught in the relentless turning gears of the clock's winding mechanism, they found Thomas Manners, strangled to death by the clock he had tended so long and faithfully...
...Again many an American scientist is troubled because he finds himself dragged willy-nilly into a partisan conflict . . . The scientist discovers that he is no longer the austere and impartial figure of popular legend and his own desires. Instead he is a partisan in a relentless battle for power . . . The scientist who is engaged in atomic research for the Government has no stomach for such power struggles-but he cannot avoid becoming involved in them ... To protect his sanity he disavows moral responsibility for the consequences of his work. But does he convince himself...
Observers agree that this relentless campaign has been very successful: Ribicoff, a heavy underdog at the start, had on October 11 a better-than-even chance of winning according to the New York Times. That was how the campaign stood two weeks ago: neither candidate had mentioned the other by name, neither had descended to a discussion of personalities, and the state's electorate was utterly apathetic about the whole thing...
...fame of Henry W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, Britons never coined the verb "to fowlerize." But in official circles, at least, they are beginning to use "to gowerize." Its source is leathery Sir Ernest Cowers, 74, a retired civil servant who has been waging a relentless war against the turgid prose called officialese. Last week, from Sir Ernest's new book, The Complete Plain Words (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), thousands of readers both in and out of the service were learning what gowerizing is all about-"to say what you mean in simple words instead...