Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard frosh football's dreams of an undefeated season disintegrated before a relentless surge of blue jerseys yesterday as Yale trounced the Crimson, 30-0, at Soldiers Field...
Both teams played with a cold, relentless fury which produced some of the supreme individual efforts in recent Harvard football history. Quarterback Larry Brown completed 16 of 29 passes for 260 yards to break Jim Kubacki's old record of 2218 career passing yards. Brown threw two touchdown passes on the day and also sashayed for 74 yards on the ground...
However, if Gerber merits praise for her professional competence, she also deserves blame for failing to coax the actors into displaying any sincere emotions. The annoyingly overarticulated speech and tightly disciplined movements suggests relentless drilling, which has paid off in unremittingly mechanical deliveries. Nor do most of the actors bother to vary their volume or pitch effectively, even in critical scenes...
...bring. Government officials warn loudly that tax slashing would mean reductions in police protection and public schooling, closed libraries and potholed streets. But most Americans apparently don't believe them. They think high taxes are a result not of the public demand for services but mainly of the relentless growth of the bureaucracy. Many believe taxes can easily be cut as much as 33%. How? They think the most obvious place to start the cuts is to eliminate government waste. Far from being ready to accept a serious reduction in government services, they think still more should be spent...
...THERE you take the Southern State Parkway out of New York City, running east along the coast, and you don't stop driving until you can taste the salt in the air. Along the way you pass the Fire Island bridge, a monument in concrete and steel to the relentless vision of a man named Robert Moses. Moses ran for governor of the state in '34 and lost, but he ran the state anyway, with his convoys of cement mixers and cranes. Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image--flat and gray and cement-hard...