Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heartstrings with harpy's fingers. "Mama," says handsome little Michel, moist-eyed, "what's a Jew?" When the story threatens to go pallid, Drach drums up suspense. The episode of escape across the border could have come out of some prison-camp melodrama: snarling dogs, relentless Nazis armed with machine guns, and desperate scrambles through thick woods, open fields and barbed wire...
...White House tapes spun in relentless revelation, they emitted a verbal cacophony offending those stalwart upholders of the exigenicies of the nations's grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...
...business can be a saint. Helms knows his list of errors and misjudgments better than anybody else. At the same time, many of his successes and triumphs are not known and never will be. But the current charges of massive surveillance of American citizens, a kind of pointless but relentless assault on privacy, still do not add up. Helms' life has been dedicated in one way or another to opposing the abuse of power, outside and inside the U.S. Maybe some place, some time, something went wrong. If so, it is not on the record...
...revenue squeeze, Leiding started jacking up the price of the Beetle, which now costs $2,895 in the U.S., up 16% in the past year. Then, when sales plummeted, Leiding cut production, trimmed the payroll, and began talking about beating cost problems, caused by the Deutsche Mark's relentless rise, by building an assembly plant in the U.S. The prospect of exporting jobs rather than cars angered two powerful factions on VW's 21-man supervisory board of directors: the members representing the government's 40% ownership of the company and the workers' representatives...
...after the Watergate burglary, after months of scandal that left the nation divided and depressed, Nixon became the first American President to resign. Yet no matter how dramatic the denouement, Nixon's role was essentially passive and self-destructive; his Administration was at last overtaken by the slow, relentless working of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress and ultimately the public conscience. Nixon's departure was a strange and absorbing spectacle, but the great damage had been done by the months of accusation and uncertainty, not by the resignation itself. The end was greeted mostly with relief...