Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asia. "The relentless pressures of the Chinese Communists menace the security of the entire area-from the borders of India and South Viet Nam to the jungles of Laos...
...First Family comes from the interplay between two families, the colored McKinleys and the white Charleses. Mr. McKinley is a sedate, scholarly classics teacher. He has a self-effacing sister and a gangling, precocious, twelve-year-old son named Scotty. The family dynamo is Rachel - a cool, lovely, relentless wife and mother. She intends to put her shoulder behind the integration issue, and her shoulder consists most ly of chip. As Rachel puts it: "I don't mind disturbing people a little. It's my idea to make them think about what they're like and what...
...Relentless "Diggers...
From the Administration's point of view, however, Council members seem relentless "diggers." Administration officials, says Dean Monro, "can tell immediately whether a Council reporter is responsible and sensible, and if he is there is no reason why he is not entitled to know everything that a member of an Overseers' Visiting Committee is told." Monro and others have pointed out that Faculty members and Administrators are often less reluctant to divulge information for a careful non-publicized Student Council report than for a CRIMSON news story...
...have not the least idea what "gradual and relentless authoritarianism" is, but in any case it has far more the air of a conservative slogan than of a clear, analytic position. In other words, Advance's categorizations won't do; the magazine is fat with the standard phraseology of the men they profess to reject. It is not so harsh as that of the National Review, but it is all here: "reckless spending," "aggrandisement of federal power," and even "Big government." And there is also an original Dowling carton: "Labor Leaders" and "Liberal Experimenters" and "Spenders" sit grinning...