Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House since the Arab oil embargo began. The President, who abhors rationing politically, ideologically and administratively, managed to avoid even using the word when he went on television last week to outline a series of less stringent conservation and allocation measures. But by week's end the relentless press of events was sweeping the Administration closer to the dreaded decision...
...assaults on civilians, not a peep of protest emerged from the Chicago Tribune, a longtime champion of the city's 13,000 men in blue. Reason: the Trib 's own reporting had prompted the indictments, as well as continuing investigations of five other patrolmen. Five months of relentless digging had produced an eight-part series that is probably the most thorough examination of police brutality ever published in a U.S. newspaper...
Dartmouth also won the battle of the Snickenberger brothers, despite a 124-yard rushing performance by Tiger Walt, as Greenie Tom directed the relentless Dartmouth attack...
SENATOR GEORGE AIKEN, Moderate Republican from Vermont: The White House has handled its domestic troubles with such relentless incompetence that those of us who would like to help have been like swimmers searching for a way out of the water only to run into one slippery rock after another. [But] those who call for the President's resignation on the ground that he has lost their confidence risk poisoning the wells of politics for years to come. The men who wrote our Constitution were fully aware how waves of emotionalism, if given an easy electoral outlet, could reduce...
After the intermission, it was all Harvard. Junior Doug Gordon engineered a relentless 80-yard touchdown march to start the third quarter, sneaking the ball over himself from the one yard line. Gordon then padded the lead by skirting right end for a two-point conversion, after he had fumbled the extra-point snap...