Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regard these vulgarities outrageous. Perchance, a visiting dignitary may some day be inspecting Lamont and feel the need of relief. That he should be faced with vile and obscene drawings, unworthy of the name of Harvard, is an infuriating disgrace. The library authorities should see to it that a relentless erasure war is waged against this sort of indecent depravity; and perhaps they will at least succeed in compelling the perverted minority to make their assignments elsewhere. Jackson M. Bruce, Jr. '53 Robert G. Lown, 53 Charles L. Squler, '53 John Zentay...
...couple of hundred other Berlin numbers have been what he, a relentless critic of his own work, admits were "successes," which means that they have coined money. More than 30 stage musicals and movies that he has composed songs for have achieved hit status. "The guy's simply dirty with smashes," Tin Pan Alley sighs with envy. Joe Schenck has put it more conservatively: "Irving never lost money for anybody...
...Koje, the bleak and bloody island where the U.N. holds 130,000-odd Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, strife between Communist and anti-Communist factions is constant, relentless and apparently uncontrollable. Recently, among the North Koreans in Compound 93, the anti-Reds got the upper hand, and the enclosure was suddenly converted to freedom. Work parties from 93 began to sing South Korean songs and wave homemade R.O.K. flags as they were marched to & from their jobs...
...Southwest, cattlemen wage a relentless war against mesquite, a ragged, bushlike tree. It chokes out the grazing grass, hides cattle at roundup time. Cattlemen have attacked it with fire, bulldozer and assorted chemicals. But it more than holds its own. Texas and Oklahoma alone have an estimated 71 million acres of it. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced that, after three years of intensive testing, it had a chemical that could win the mesquite war. The killer: 2,4,5-T (short for trichlorophenoxyacetic acid...
...reproach about the picture, it is that the author appears to "stack the cards" in some of his situations to derive the greatest possible effect. But after all, who is to say that it might not have happened that way? Mr. Rattigan has exposed a man's soul with relentless probing, but at the same time with extreme delicacy, and that is about all one can ask of any playwright...