Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several days after the election, Giscard toyed with the idea of forming a new centrist "liberal" party aimed at blocking Chirac's relentless drive for power. But Giscard's U.D.F. followers in parliament, anxious to hold their seats, seemed far more interested in making a deal with Chirac than in sharing the ex-President's martyrdom. Said one U.D.F. deputy: "I can understand the President's pain and recriminations. But right now we have to keep our fists in our pockets and try to save the house...
Secondary roads off the interstates are often in much worse shape. In eastern Kentucky, where pockmarked roads suffer a relentless pounding from overloaded coal trucks, drivers bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full...
...sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise. When the Führer's minutes of the affair threaten to surface, counterintelligence launches a relentless search from Hollywood to Hamburg...
Third baseman Pat Horne and shortstop and co-captain Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein led the Crimson's relentless offensive attack...
...work on the code would be sunk by this extra weight. Neither the new code nor the N.R.A. bill ever made it to a Senate vote. Two other N.R.A. supporters, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas and Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, were annoyed by the lobby's relentless but ultimately unsuccessful effort to block the confirmation last fall of former Illinois Congressman Abner Mikva, a strong gun-control advocate, as a federal judge...