Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides the profit motive and what has become a rather relentless desire to give offense, there seems in such new novelty and head shop items an impulse to debunk childhood fantasies, or at any rate the fantasies of Disney's artists, by degrading the whole crew and thereby achieving a kind of liberation. It is Disney in the style of Jean Genet-a symptom, paradoxically, of the fetish for childhood that has seized many who are in the process of leaving...
...name that was still lettered on its tactical operations center when the 300-man G.I. garrison pulled out last week-it is a small triangle of dusty hillocks that long ago earned a pivotal niche in the history of the war. In 1967, the North Vietnamese put such relentless pressure on Con Thien and inflicted so many casualties that the American public's confidence in its government's management of the war was badly shaken. In July of that year, two Marine companies ran into an ambush outside Con Thien, suffering 83 dead and 170 wounded. In September...
...Behind Cronkite's professional face, there are opinions after all. Wouldn't it be great to hear some of them on the daily news? Agnew's relentless attacks show a definite trend in the future use of the office of the vice presidency: for backstabbing, slander and big-mouthism that clearly shows vanity and the inability to deal effectively. The press is real; it cannot be dealt with lightly, ,and it does more to check and balance itself than the Government could...
...traces of a year at Harvard that could upset an alumni wife (like scum in the shower stalls and marijuana seeds in the bureau drawers), and a few dozen of the best of these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew captains who supervise the work effort, and the promised tips of financially flush alumni are the oft-mentioned carrots that gets everyone on the stick...
...Nixon Administration has made a command decision to save Lockheed. Having sent to Congress a bill to authorize the loan guarantee, President Nixon has assigned Treasury Secretary John Connally, a relentless persuader, to lead a hard-sell campaign on Capitol Hill. Hearings on the issue are scheduled to begin June 7, and there will be many dramatic confrontations before the final vote is taken, probably at the end of July. At the moment, a slim majority in Congress appears to favor the guarantee, though with much reluctance. As a price for it, California Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat, demands...