Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized labor was fighting a hard and relentless campaign. In an unprecedented formal alliance, the C.I.O., the A.F.L., the United Mine Workers, the Machinists and the Railroad Brotherhoods had got together in a strictly political organization and dubbed it the United Labor League. The auto workers' Walter Reuther had invaded the state to denounce the author of the Taft-Hartley Act. From labor headquarters had rolled thousands upon thousands of pamphlets, posters, books, a lurid comic book (drawn by Al Capp's brother Elliott) attacking and lampooning Taft. A few of the attacks hit home, but some...
...they continue to scrap, at ten-minute intervals, for the rest of the play. Betweenwhiles, the genteel agitation over the ancestress could be excused its lack of drama if it ever had any real gaiety as satire. The dogged humor of the play is not helped by the relentless vivacity of the production...
...wishful point that the Russians might become good boys some day (see above), the Russians were being relatively mellow at U.N.'s General Assembly. Andrei Vishinsky opposed the U.S. plan for widening the powers of the Assembly, but he was less vitriolic than usual. Jacob Malik, the Relentless Rudolph of last month's Security Council sessions, softened to the point of telling one reporter to remember the Russian word nichevo. "It means," explained Malik, " 'don't worry, things will turn out all right...
...right from the bell, Willie showed that he was going to be a hard man to beat. For the first two rounds he just jabbed and retreated while Saddler, usually misfiring with his punches, kept up a relentless pursuit. Late in the third round, Saddler caught Willie squarely with a looping left, dumped him to the canvas for a nine count. The champion was jarred, but he got up and danced out of harm...
Last week Cleveland's Federal Judge Emerich B. Freed gave the defense short shrift. He could "not conceive" that freedom of the press was even involved in the case. The Horvitz brothers, he found, had made a "bold, relentless and predatory" attempt to establish a monopoly, had rejected advertising "solely ... to force these advertisers not to [use] an available mode of communication." Judge Freed found the Horvitz brothers, Business Manager D. P. Self, Editor Frank Maloy and the Journal guilty of a civil violation of the Sherman Act. In announcing that he would restrain the from rejecting advertising...