Word: relentless
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Elected for a second term in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide, Black became one of the most fervent New Dealers in Congress. He backed revisionary New Deal legislation on labor, utilities, industry and finance. He supported Roosevelt's ill-fated plan to pack the Supreme Court. He was a relentless Senate investigator, successfully raking up corrupt practices in Government mail-carrying subsidies and in lobbying for utility holding companies (he favored public power); sometimes his inquisitorial tactics were criticized as being in violation of the Bill of Rights...
...F.L.N. side, the spokesman was Dr. Chawki Mostefai, 42, the general delegate of the F.L.N. to the Algerian Provisional Executive, which will superintend the July 1 referendum on the country's independence. Dr. Mostefai also found himself continually sandbagged by more relentless Moslem colleagues. When the accord was published, promising 1) amnesty for S.A.O. killers, and 2) enlistment of Europeans in the Force Locale, the new Algerian police, there was vigorous dissent from F.L.N. headquarters in Tunis. Vice Premier Mohammed ben Bella was against any deal with the S.A.O. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda&3151;engaged in a private power struggle...
...regime has by no means committed itself to either side. There may even be an opportunity for Western influence here. North Vietnamese officials have hinted that the country might accept aid from the U.S. "with no strings attached." This is a far cry from Communist China's relentless barrage against anything to do with America...
...lopsided score merely hinted at the humiliation of Italy's defeat. Not until the deciding first three matches were over did bumbling Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola cadge a single set from their relentless Aussie tormentors. The crucial doubles match lasted only an hour; Pietrangeli and Sirola won only nine games-the worst Challenge Round showing since 1919, when Britain's doubles players dropped all but two games to Norman Brookes and Gerald Patterson of a combined Australia-New Zealand team. "A pathetic display," snapped the Sydney Morning Herald, and Milan's II Giorno agreed: "They played...
...Mayflower Colonist William Brewster, ambitious Owen Brewster went into politics at 21, in a series of acrimonious campaigns climbed from state senator to Governor (1924-28), U.S. Representative (1934-40), and finally into the Senate, where as chairman of the War Investigating Committee he built a reputation as a relentless prosecutor of Democratic misdeeds but finally met his nemesis in the form of Financier Howard Hughes, who charged that Brewster had attempted to blackmail him into surrendering control of Trans-World Airlines-a charge that was never proved but that helped cost Brewster his Senate seat in the 1952 election...