Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limousine, and rushes into a basement locker room, ripping off his tie as he runs. Down the stairs bounds Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, unbuttoning his shirt on the way. Within minutes, the two have changed their clothes and are on the squash court, engaged in a fierce, relentless competition. "One of these days," remarked a spectator at a recent match, "we're going to find both of them stretched out on the floor dead...
Quebec is indeed a complicated riddle in this election, but in unravelling the complex, Mr. Cohen has overlooked the obvious. Two immutable promises exist in any analysis of Quebec political behaviour in federal elections. One is Quebec's relentless resistance to Anglo-Canadian or American encroachment on her cherished values and identity. Two is Quebec's penchant for heroes be they political or otherwise...
...remain an immortal book in the West, but it is inconceivable that it will be read in Russia in the near future. Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg might be toadies, and we might often find them despicable. Yet their dissent, no matter how veiled, will reach the Russian people. And their relentless pressure for new freedoms, no matter how hesitant, can produce an occasional "thaw," can help create a climate that will allow the publication of such works...
...glance, Maazel conducts with clear, functional beauty, avoiding ostentation to such a degree that he occasionally loses the spirit of his work in his wish to perfect it. When a tenor faltered during Maazel's Der Rosenkavalier, the maestro coolly ignored him, pushing ahead with a relentless beat that humiliated the singer and ruined the song. But in the concert hall, his command of the orchestra is invariable, and his reading of the great scores is almost errorless...
Wolfson's invasion of the Continent is only the latest product of a relentless drive for growth that has built his Great Universal Stores Ltd. into the largest mail-order enterprise outside...