Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of such relentless success appears when the reader learns that Andrews' wife, feeling that he no longer needed her, turned to drink. As a result she was a heavy liability to an ambitious man with a growing need for a presentable public partner. He secretly took a mistress. When the wife is eventually found dead, John Andrews is accused of murdering...
Alas poor Bruce and Leroy, the Crimson goaltending tandem. Netminders Poliquin and Thompson were no match for the relentless Cornell attack. Sophomore Poliquin only fended off two shots on goal while eleven got by. Thompson, a junior, fared little better. He stopped eight shots but nine more went...
...breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
When the latest versions of the playbooks are ready, usually by mid-May, Shula is set for the final stage of his off-season program: planning the upcoming training camp. This, too, is revised from year to year, though it always bears the Shula stamp of relentless organization. Last year many of the days were broken down into ten-minute periods for jogging, machine work and other exercises. Many Dolphin veterans, as Shula himself admits, "bitch and moan" about the regimentation. "But they always do what we ask." Last year Shula asked for a second Super Bowl win. This year...
...slugged his way toward the 714 home-run mark last season, Aaron was annoyed by occasional hate letters and relentless coverage by reporters. Now Aaron has become the focus of an overblown rhubarb about where he should take his final swings at the record...