Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimated 30,000 Communist troops that once encircled the base. But the U.S. command is convinced that North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap, if he ever intended to attack Khe Sanh, was forced to abandon the idea and the siege because of his losses under relentless allied air bombardment...
Lawrence's posthumous triumph as a dramatist is shared by Director Gill, whose careful casting and slow, relentless holding of long silences allow the language to flower in the mind and the subtle relationships of these numb, dumb characters to take form. Seldom in years have London audiences sat so awed and hushed as at the final scene of Mrs. Holroyd, in which the coal-blackened body of a miner (Michael Coles), the victim of a pit accident, lies on the floor of his shack while his widow (Judy Parfitt) begins to wash him, keening to herself...
...There's something about the man that reacts to a Kennedy," an aide remarked last week of Lyndon Johnson. To be sure, there is something about the President that reacts to any meaningful challenge to his authority, but the response is reflex and relentless when the defial comes from a Kennedy. True to form, scarcely 48 hours after Robert F. Kennedy became an open rival for the presidency, Johnson launched a massive counterattack. During a week whose pace and tempo seemed more attuned to the windup of a bitter election than to its opening hours, the President made...
Autobiography is everywhere apparent. The fumbling, hesitant lover, the suicide-bent pessimist, the intellectual incapable of action, the Piedmontese boy who even in the city never loses his love for his native mountains-these are all Pavese. His characters are en gaged in a relentless search to figure out what it is they want from a prosaic life; that too was Pavese. He was a lonely man, and his narrators are lonely; they are wanderers, loving solitude and yet caught up in the senseless rush of people who have a need for febrile action, drink and meaningless sexual bouts...
...Cambridge City Council passed a record $32,233,979.03 budget last night, but not before delivering a brutal attack on "the relentless takeover by Harvard University" of city institutions...