Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed. With his sixth straight primary victory, McGovern had acquired 226 of the 278 New York delegates. The spring's relentless arithmetic had now pushed his delegate total over 1,300, putting him fewer than 200 votes from the 1,509 he will need for a first-ballot victory at the Democratic Convention. By this week, McGovern's men claimed, he would have raised the total to just over 1,400-including pledges he expected to pick up from uncommitted delegates in half a dozen states. McGovern was also hoping to pry loose some 40 to 50 black...
...heart disease last week at 77, Edmund Wilson had indeed investigated the main departments of human thought. More than that, he had, in his term, "a synoptic" vision of them all. Literature, politics, history, language, travel -all arenas felt his deliberate footsteps; all were illuminated by his urbane, relentless intelligence. They are still lit; 22 of his books remain in print. His original judgments on 20th century literary masters have been vindicated; his piercing moral arguments against totalitarianism have actually gained force with the movement of history...
...survivor of the Lod massacre and $10,000 each for the families of the dead. Meanwhile, in a poignant letter to Israeli Premier Golda Meir, the former schoolteacher father of the surviving gunman, Kozo Okamoto, pleaded that "my son be executed as soon as possible after he is given relentless investigation...
...Duan, the shrewd, remote first secretary of Hanoi's ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party and ranking member of its Politburo. A nervous and intense man who grew up in what is now South Viet Nam, Le Duan is generally regarded as the chief architect of Hanoi's relentless crusade to take over the South. His pre-eminence is underscored by the fact that in recent weeks Hanoi newspapers have taken to calling him "Uncle" Le, an honorary title rarely used since the death of Ho Chi Minh...
...moon walkers also gathered a valuable "shadowed" sample of lunar soil from what Duke called a "gopher hole" under a large rock. Shielded from the sun's relentless rays, the sample may still contain volatile chemicals that would otherwise have long ago been "boiled off" by the intense solar heat. Finally, as the long EVA drew to a close, the astronauts headed back toward Orion, setting a lunar record of 1 1 m.p.h. in their electric-powered cart and drawing a mild rebuke from Houston for speeding...