Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high priest of the new way was Paul Bocuse, who brought to French cooking a new emphasis on freshness and simplicity (TIME, April 9, 1973)-and in 1975 received the Legion of Honor from President Giscard d'Estaing. The orgiastic bouffe-meals that would consume long hours of relentless, if not hoggish stuffing of the gullet-got its just desserts. Then Guérard, a close friend of Bocuse's, carried la nouvelle cuisine further by finding ways to cut the calories while maintaining the highest order of taste. Now, says an admiring Bocuse: "For the first time...
...Pearce is speaking, the relentless whirr and click of the ergometer starts up. Heavyweight Karen Oberhauser begins battling the speedometer-like gauge staring her in the face. The needle shoots up at the outset of her fresh and powerful strokes and then slowly as the ten-minute pace wears`on and the inevitable decline begins. Oberhauser has a trance-like expression throughout the piece, seemingly oblivious to the prodding of coxswain Nancy Hadley. Her piece ends and she staggers past two first-year women looking on apprehensively...
...second half was relentless up-and-down action, with the team trading baskets. The Straus players put on a final burst at the end, but Hurlbut-Prescott was able to hold on for a one-point victory...
...number of ex-P.O.W.s took a less sympathetic view of a coercion defense. Retired Air Force Colonel Quincy Collins, who was held prisoner in North Viet Nam for 7½ years, faced a North Vietnamese indoctrination program that seems far more concentrated and relentless than the ordeal Patty apparently underwent. But, he says, "if you were weak and really screwed up beforehand, you might go over." If she was in fact brainwashed, he says, it was due more to her indulgent parents than to her captors. "Her big problem," he suggests, "is her mommy and daddy," by which...
...other hand, some might say Carter, whose relentless gopher's grin and Joe Hardy-like rise from obscurity have earned him the recent sobriquet "The Devil's Candidate," was only going to touch base with the dark spirits who have granted him his mortal popularity...