Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slogging to Victory. Throughout the second half, the Packers slogged up and down the muddy field, scoring a touchdown and a field goal, controlling the ball so effectively that the Browns got to run only 16 plays to Green Bay's 35. The stars of that relentless assault were the cripples: Fullback Taylor, Halfback Hornung. In all, Hornung carried 18 times for 105 yds.; Taylor, workhorse of the Green Bay backfield, picked up 96 yds. on 27 carries to earn the game's Most Valuable Player award. When the final gun sounded, it was Hornung and Taylor...
Malaria has been sharply curbed by improved drugs and anti-mosquito spraying. Now that schistosomiasis itself can be cured, the next step is to clean up water supplies. Combined cure and prevention might then halt the relentless spread of the fever, which is now close to surpassing malaria as a destroyer of human health in the tropics...
Cutting the Lines. Though primarily for use in the South, there is nothing to prevent the spreading southern-based armada from joining on occasion its sister fleet of U.S. planes based on carriers and in Thailand in the daily, relentless pounding of North Viet Nam. Indeed, as Hanoi increasingly steps up the tempo of fighting in the South, there is likely to be increased argument for U.S. bombing of the industrial complex around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong...
...West, which is still a few paces behind in the interstate highway race, is closing fast. In the 1970s, a relentless roadrunner will be able to travel nearly 1,500 miles from Vancouver to Tijuana without ever seeing...
...relentless stream of splenetic essays and novels, Philip Wylie has profitably lambasted Mom, Pop, the common man, the businessman, the scientific man, sexy advertising, and American apathy in the face of potential nuclear disaster. Now he reports his latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist...