Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the ectomorphic Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy resists shrinkage. Its events are febrile, its local color relentless and sometimes overlong. This often obscures suspense and the Le Carré trademark: a fine irony that smashes beautiful political theories with hard facts. That irony is apparent in the very word Circus (see box), center of British intelligence. Once a roiling three-ring operation, the place now resembles a shabby, peeling carnival depleted of funds and dignity...
After seven minutes of relentless shooting off the sticks of York, Mleczko. Stone and captain Lucy Wood. York finally broke through, knocking a pass from Wood into the corner of the Tufts...
...York Times, the only paper to match the Post in its almost daily attention to Lance's troubles, was beaten to a few disclosures by its own columnist, William Safire. His relentless scrutiny of Lance's loans and insinuations about possible conflict of interests prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff to complain on July 25 that Lance was being "smeared from one end of the country to the other," a complaint that Ribicoff later retracted. The Times tried to catch up with Safire, but produced a stream of speculative, melodramatic stories. On Aug. 15, for instance, the Times described...
...difficult to achieve so long as the property tax is the main source of revenue for most local governments-and attempts to replace it in that role by enacting sales or income taxes or making existing ones higher also excite bitter resistance. The best short-term hope remains relentless pressure on local governments to hold down spending. So long as property taxes continue to rise more rapidly than family incomes, many a homeowner no longer can be certain that his house will indefinitely remain his castle...
...meeting could hardly have clashed more jarringly with its purpose. At the U.N.'s invitation, the representatives had gathered in the Kenyan capital last week to discuss and devise ways of containing what an increasing number of experts regard as a major environmental danger: the creeping, seemingly relentless spread of the earth's deserts...