Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians were five years away from developing MIRV. Despite the tests, Schlesinger does not expect Russia to finish development of MIRV technology before 1976?and, more important, does not expect the Soviets to match U.S. inventory before the mid-1980s. Still, the tests were a disquieting sign that the relentless Soviet momentum in weapons research is closing the technology...
...LONG TRAIN RUNNING, Doobie Brothers, Eight in June. Relentless rhythm, typical for the Doobies...
...special concern, he had more than enough to worry about. A two-week-old back injury had kept Walton out of three games, and he would almost surely be needed against Notre Dame. Led by high-scoring Center John Shumate (6 ft. 9 in.), the Irish, with their relentless full-court press and finely tuned fast break, had overrun their opponents by an average of 26 points a game...
...Flynn could have tacked Lombardi's name onto a posthumous packet of old ticket stubs and made money. Instead, to his credit, Flynn has painstakingly gathered together Lombardi's notes about how to play football and organized them in a remarkable book, faithful to the simple and relentless Lombardi vision of the game. Flynn's presentation is very technical-and properly sweaty. The text is a filigree of football diagrams and terminology not intended for the casual armchair aficionado. But for anyone who is familiar with the intricate levels of the professional game and likes...
...answer is that we all need it and we are not getting it. The past decade is littered with the wreckage of previously successful magazines: Look, Life, The Reporter, even The Saturday Evening Post. None of them were very good but they at least provided some antidote to the relentless drone of television; they at least marked out a conception of the world less fleeting than a half hour of network news sandwiched between vapid and escapist situation comedies and cop shows. Now they are gone, and we are left with a choice among Walter Cronkite, Time magazine...