Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show," the moviemakers advertise. "Stay home and watch television," the networks plead. "Ignore such frivolities," urge the publishers, "and read a good book!" Surveying this relentless but stimulating competition for the public's attention, TIME, beginning with this issue, launches a new weekly section that will present...
...Quemoy this year. But the monsoon also hampers the effort to supply the island. And to the weary, frustrated defenders of Quemoy, even the arrival of all the alligators, oil drums, food cases and medicine packages in the Far East would not be a completely effective answer to the relentless fire from the unmolested Red guns on the mainland...
...publish an "Official System." Culbertson publicly laid down a challenge: he would bet $10,000 to $1,000 that, in a match of 150 rubbers, he and his wife Josephine, using the Culbertson system, would beat Lenz and any partner, using the Official System. Under Culbertson's relentless public needling, Lenz reluctantly accepted the challenge, chose as his partner hefty Oswald Jacoby, later famed as an expert on canasta and poker as well as bridge. Named as referee was Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, a West Point instructor and part-time bridge tournament director who rose to become Supreme Allied...
...long way from the neighborhood bar in which that unforgettable movie character, Marty, spent aimless evenings with his cronies ("So whaddayawanna do tonight?") to the London pub where T. S. Eliot's Wastelanders waited for the relentless closing hour ("Hurry up, please, it's time!"). But both the gifted actor who played Marty and the great poet-playwright who created The Waste Land are part of show business, and both made news last week. So did their wives. In the case of the newly divorced Ernest Borgnines, it was a matter of an old Hollywood story...
...decade in New Delhi, half a century in Andhra Pradesh. The thermometer hit 121°F.* in the pilgrim center of Bhadrachalam; it hovered around 100°F. in Delhi even at night. Except in the cool hills to which only a few could escape, a relentless sun licked the country like a flamethrower. And from the sun came tragedy...