Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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REFLECTIONS 59 on the Aisle Manhattan has the world's most inhuman subways, some of its most hopelessly snarled traffic and, in the public bars, its most relentless television sets; it also has some of the world's best music and drama. For four years, U.N. staff members have been exposed to the blessings as well as to the curses of their international capital. Last week,the New York Herald Tribune's Peter Kihss set out to discover how they like Manhattan culture...
...came fairly close to suicide in World War II. During the London blitz, Eliot spent two nights a week as a fire-watcher on the roof of his office building. From his perch above what he has often called the "unreal city," Eliot observed, with terror and compassion, the relentless fires. Had London's people (and with them, Western civilization) gone down then, Eliot's verse would have served as a magnificent and tender epitaph...
...Pearson, relentless in scalping others, bellowed as loudly as any victim of his own snickersnee. To Courier-Journal Publisher Mark Ethridge he fired off a testy, 2,000-word complaint about Day's aggressive and "unreasonable" attitude. Pearson even telephoned one of Reporter Day's former employers, Publisher James M. Cox of the Dayton, Ohio News, to check up on Day, triumphantly informed the Courier-Journal that Cox thought Day an "egotistical ass." As for Day's findings, Pearson brushed off the whole thing as a "how-many-angels-can-stand-on-the-point-of-a-needle...
...where the Russians spurned agreements and threw up the blockade, then backed down before the airlift and the West's show of strength. There was Greece, where Russia defied the U.N. to foment rebellion, then retreated before the persuasive weight of the Truman doctrine. There was Turkey, where relentless Soviet pressure was shut off by U.S. economic and military...
...President did say "always." But then, that was more than three years ago. For the past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...