Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are signs that the relentless focus of the Western press is no longer the blessing it once was for Anatoli Shcharansky. Only two weeks after his release from nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Shcharansky seemed to have more on his mind than his prison experiences. He revealed that after his arrival in West Germany, he promised his wife Avital a vacation, delayed because of the demands the media were making on his time. "I can tell you very frankly that it harms me from going deeper in our personal family life, which we want to start as soon...
...partisan crowd of 40, eagerly awaiting Harvard's disposal of the visitors at 14-6, had to sit through ten more minutes of agonizing tension as a relentless MIT squad--relying on spikes by Daly, Ha, and Armando Hernandez--narrowed the margin to five...
...debate over contested votes in his region, when a white vehicle pulled into the driveway. Without warning, a man in a black knit ski mask leaped out and started shooting. Javier jumped up and ran. Zigzagging across the building's broad concrete plaza, he tried to escape the relentless barrage of bullets. At least one hit its mark. Javier stumbled and fell into a small fishpond...
...best actress to Meryl Streep and for best director to Sydney Pollack, but while Whoopi Goldberg was named for Purple, Director Steven Spielberg was glaringly omitted, after being nominated three times in the past. Why? Some of Hollywood's glittersnipes speculate that it is sheer jealousy over his relentless commercial successes. Said veteran Hollywood Producer Daniel Melnick: "It's as if the nominators expressed their awe for the Sistine Chapel while snubbing Michelangelo...
Giuliani's early glory days were the five years he spent as an assistant U.S. Attorney, beginning in 1970. His lapidary cross-examination of Democratic U.S. Representative Bertram Podell of Brooklyn, who confessed on the witness stand to conspiracy charges, and his relentless hammering away at undercover cops on the take established the leitmotivs of his career: the passionate prosecution of public corruption and organized crime. While serving a stint in the Justice Department during the Ford Administration, he completed his gradual metamorphosis from a Robert Kennedy Democrat to a registered Republican...