Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wield the Lash. As P-D city editor for 25 years, big (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Ben Reese had built up a crack staff by painstaking direction and a relentless, daily wielding of the lash on staffers who failed to give him what he wanted ("Tell him the Post-Dispatch wants to know, and don't come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen...
...mambo's relentless rhythm had already caused at least one homicide (in Mexico), had driven its practitioners to such wild exuberance in Peru that Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima denied absolution to anyone who danced it. In its fast, Afro-Cuban syncopation, the percussion instruments thump down on the offbeat while the brasses go up in high blaring dissonance. Its tunes have such titles as Mambo No. 5, El Ruletero (the taxi driver) and Pachito 'Eche, whose words in typical rhythm, go: "Who is it, who is it? I will...
...massacre of thousands of Calvinist sympathizers in 1572. Calvinism-under the name of Presbyterianism-became the national Church of Scotland in 1560. Like the Church of England, wherever the major Reformation churches flourished, they followed the Catholic pattern of state-church partnership and were just as savagely relentless as the Roman Church in persecuting religious minorities...
...side of virtue stood the committee's sharp, relentless counsel, Rudolph Halley, and the senatorial members of the committee who sat in New York. Opposed was a sullen collection of superbly tailored racketeers, gimlet-eyed gamblers, dumb cops, venal politicians and slick lawyers who looked as though they had trooped in from Hollywood's Central Casting bureau...
...years his small body had been racked with cancer. Doctors had removed one of Stephen's kidneys in an attempt to halt its relentless advance. But the cancer spread through the child's abdomen and into his chest. By last January it had destroyed one of his lungs. Two weeks ago Stephen was put into an oxygen tent. Doctors told his parents the end was near. Hugh Ridlon, 28, an ex-G.I., and his wife Helen asked Stephen what he wanted most in the world. "Another Christmas tree," he answered. Last week, soon after...