Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hundreds of spectators, mostly husbands, wives and children of the shooters, watched, off and on, in passive silence. The contests, all scored by relentless addition, had no climaxes. No one cheered. Many sat with eyes glued to mounted telescopes trained on the targets. Each evening, cease-fire came with the slowly fading light. Life for everyone at Camp Perry, by noisy day and quiet night, was a pleasant summer bivouac. They slept on cots in Perry's concrete-floored hutments (billeting: $1 a day), ate cafeteria-style in a big mess hall, stole off to the beach, a stone...
Humphrey's hope of getting more of the U.S. debt into long-term bonds is being still further deferred by relentless facts. Last week he faced the problem of refunding $8 billion of maturing World War II bonds, which were fairly long-term (ten years). To refinance them on a long-term basis would cost prohibitive interest rates. Instead, Humphrey announced he would offer the holders a choice of one-year certificates at 2#&8541;%, or 3½-year Treasury notes at 2#&8542;%. That is short-term, and it is the highest interest the Government has ever...
Kinsey's only concession to the social amenities is to hold Sunday-evening record recitals. But he is no relaxed amateur. He is a relentless musicologist, and his soirees are an exacting ritual. He plans a carefully balanced program and gathers material for commentary. Guests arrive on the stroke of 8 and are seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies...
...Kenya sun, bearded, burly Kenyatta and his five followers were taken into custody once more. In South Nyeri, Mau Mau terrorists had just killed 13 loyal Kikuyu. In London, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told Laborite critics in the House of Commons that, in Britain's relentless and increasingly successful counter-efforts, 1,300 suspected Mau Maus have been killed...
...Anybody Can Play . . ." Last week, in a backs-to-the-wall gesture against the relentless onslaught of modernity, Federal District authorities took steps to remit all taxes and licensing fees for the capital's remaining hundred hurdy-gurdy men. "The best in popular entertainment," cried an official, "is represented by the cilindrero." The cilindreros, lugging their 80-lb. hand organs along Mexico City's farthest-flung streets, are still favorite visitors in the poorest barrios. "Anybody can play an organ, but not everybody can carry one," is a standard all-purpose joke in Mexico...