Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Airport Attacks. Weary government troops continued to fight for survival against the relentless Khmer Rouge (see following story). The Cambodians struggled to retake the village of Tuol Leap, six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh, which the enemy had been using as a site for launching rockets against Pochentong Airport. As the fighting swayed back and forth, Khmer Rouge attacks on the airport lessened, and as many as 49 cargo planes flew in daily from Thailand and Saigon with tons of food, oil, medicines and arms...
...suffered a touch of sclerosis. The frontispiece, "Talk of the Town," turned suddenly from boutique prattle to sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over bearing and relentless. Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile, in his journalistic study Intellectual Skywriting, found the mag azine a prime exemplar of radical chic...
...Terry Meagher at 16:05 a low shot from in close that found its way between Petro's legs. A banner from the balcony read "Only the Lord Saves More Than Petro." but last night the Crimson netminder could have used a little divine intervention to thwart the relentless Terrier attack...
...since January 1973, when the Paris Accords supposedly brought peace, had the fighting in Indochina been so bloody. Following up their capture of Phuoc Long province earlier this month (TIME, Jan. 20), Communist forces last week kept relentless pressure on the Saigon government with small-unit action throughout the country. Saigon claimed that in the nine days following the fall of Phuoc Binh, capital of Phuoc Long, 3,066 Communist soldiers were killed while 484 government troops died and 1,661 were wounded...
...bummers" committed as they marched to the sea. Sherman, says Foote, "hoped to keep nonmilitary damage to a minimum, but he made it clear that if guerrillas or other civilians attempted to interfere with his progress, 'then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless.' " Sherman's people got the idea. All over the countryside, Yankees were seen jamming rods into the earth, searching for the jewels and silver that plantation owners' wives had buried. One Yankee veteran declared: "This is probably the most gigantic pleasure expedition ever planned." In Georgia alone...