Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century war of naked self-interest; the entire operation smacked of gunboat diplomacy. On that basis, it was understandable: the 19th century was, in retrospect, not such a bad century, and even gunboat diplomacy had its virtues. What made the whole enterprise so offensive was India's past relentless posture of ethical superiority and its present hypocritical attempts to justify the invasion on moral grounds. India, argued Krishna Menon, was really defending itself because "colonialism is permanent aggression.'' Forgetting his manufactured threat of a potent Portuguese defending army, Nehru said: "The justification of this action is that...
After the fire is out comes the tricky business of putting a cap on the escaping gas. With powerful winches pulling against the relentless pressure of the gas, Adair will force a 15-ton control head over the well. The head divides the gas flow like a garden sprinkler so that it can be controlled but not shut off. Meanwhile, slanting lateral wells will be drilled to the base of the mile-deep GT2, and through them specially compounded oil drillers' "mud''* will be forced into the main boring until enough weight builds up in the shaft...
...Yardlings dominated the play from the beginning of the game, when they marched deep into Bulldog territory on their first series of downs. Playing relentless offense and their best defense of the year, the hard-hitting freshmen kept the the ball locked in the Yale half of the field for the whole first half and most of the third and fourth quarters...
...Texas and the Texans, whom he dubs The Super-Americans. Bainbridge is a veteran profiler for The New Yorker (where most of the book first appeared), and The Super-Americans has all the best (and traces of the worst) of New Yorker style-urbane detachment, smooth understatement, and relentless pyramiding of minutiae that sometimes suggests a late evening with a victim of total recall. But though The Super-Americans might not suffer much by being cut 100 pages, it is a perceptive and entertaining Baedeker-in-depth...
Granite-faced Bear Bryant (he earned the nickname wrestling a bear at the age of eleven) reports for work each day promptly at 5:30 a.m., sometimes spends the night sacked out in his spacious office in the Alabama gym. On the practice field he is a relentless, brutal taskmaster who orders players, managers, trainers and coaches alike through every drill on the dead run. Off field or on, he lives, eats and breathes football with an angry fervor that few rival coaches can pretend to understand. At 7 one morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked...