Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Curtice's drive for leadership is as relentless as a turnbuckle, his success has naturally brought some new strains for G.M. In the furiously competitive race for auto sales, relations are more tense between G.M. and its major competitor, Ford, than ever before. Ford executives, who used to meet G.M. friends for a Sunday round of golf, now only nod perfunctorily when they bump into the G.M. crowd at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club. G.M. blames Ford for giving in last summer to the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther on the guaranteed annual wage. Fordmen blame...
...best of the Soviet offerings was The Cicada (Mosfilm), an adaptation of a Chekhov story. It is a relentless dissection of a frivolous woman with delusions of culture, and of the effete salon riffraff that surrounded her in the days of the Czar. For the days of the commissars, the Soviets did less well, e.g., An Unfinished Novel (Lenfilm), in which all the resources of Soviet medicine fail to cure a paralyzed engineer, but when the girl doctor of his dreams rushes to his bedside in the last reel, he walks again...
...battle is joined. We cannot make the slightest concession to the enemy in this dark and lamentable hour of struggle. There is no more difference in compromising the integrity of race on the playing field than in doing so in the classrooms. One break in the dike and the relentless seas will rush in and destroy...
...thick at times, and the umbrellas occasionally blocked the view, but for anyone seeing his first Harvard football game in three years, Saturday's Baker Field Aquacade provided an eminently satisfying spectacle. A pleasure, indeed, it was to see a Crimson eleven play such alert, aggressive, and, above all, relentless football against a team which, as even the lachrymose Mr. Little once remarked, "Always seems to get the breaks against Harvard...
...wife at a prizefight, called her "Butch," and treated her like a meddling parent that he continually had to outwit. The wife (played by June Allyson, who has recently provided the ball-and-chain for almost every picture she appears in) is presented in turn as a relentless good sport who makes her home in one plywood horror after another, spends half her time in heart-rending goodbyes, and keeps muttering sub-hysterically, "Sweetheart, don't worry about...