Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is poorly paced, foolishly interrupting some exciting, if stock, situations with a tiresome and totally irrelevant O'Brien, Smith, Holden triangle. There is no new angle in The Turning Point to give if the stature of the Emforcer, but had it eschewed love interest, and stuck to patient, relentless investigators, flustered, snarling gangsters, and sharp eyed, tough newspapermen, it might have been a pretty good film...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay. To jazz agers and Bohemians she became a symbol for living recklessly, hand-to-mouth and bed-to-bed. Critics who then spoke of her in the same breath with Shakespeare might like to take back a lot of what they said. But even the relentless weeding-out by time has left a handful of lyrics and sonnets that still have both zest and grace...
...make it through Providence. Try as you will, within blocks you will be confronted by a one-way-street sign, then another, then another. In relentless profusion the little arrows follow each other on the sign posts. In ever-decreasing spirals you pursue them. Perhaps an accident of planning has left you an escape route, and you break out, breathless, into the welcome air of some more coal yards. But do not count on your escape. For eventually you must arrive at that squalid square where all the one-way signs point inward. It is a large area, teeming with...
...fact is that every basic tenet of orthodox Christianity can be explained as logically as a theorem of Euclid. Few have followed St. Thomas as he piles syllogism on relentless syllogism, building from the bald fact of existence until he reaches the sky and beyond; but for those who have, the comparison of his work with that of most modern philosophers is like comparing the drawings of an architect with the scrawls of bright children...
...would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with the U.S. will be the keystone of his foreign policy, and pledged relentless opposition to Communist influences and propaganda...