Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your cover on Alaska's Governor Stepovich: I recall that eleven years ago, Ernest Gruening, author of the relentless campaign for statehood for Alaska . . . and three times governor of Alaska, was splendidly on your cover with a big "49" star...
...bitterest pill of all was the general Republican disapproval. A sort of "abominable noman" to Eisenhower loyalists in need of favors from the Federal Government, Adams was the tough cop many could admire but few tried to like. Now that he himself was in trouble, many remembered his relentless judgment against Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who once or twice solicited business for his efficiency-engineering firm on official Air Force stationery. Talbott and others had gone out complaining that the implacable Adams never gave them a chance to square up things, clear their names...
...been, he said, a "U-shaped advance" in China's economy during the past two years. The first four months of 1958 had registered a significant "leap forward" in industrial and agricultural production, he added. Western specialists believe there is opposition inside the top leadership over the relentless "leap forward" policy, and noted how much space Liu devoted to justifying the speedup. Connoisseurs of Communist politics also noted that Liu gave "credit" for the policy no less than a dozen times to Mao, thereby establishing his responsibility...
...approached the peak of our climb, the relentless 4-g pressure was lifted and suddenly we slipped through a man-made loophole in the law of gravity: we weighed nothing...
Lion's Share. Despite its good grey editorial tone, the Times is a lively and politely relentless competitor in the scramble for subscribers and ads. From 1947 through last year, the daily Times's circulation climbed from 543,583 to 638,006, the Sunday Times from 1,092,054 to 1,285,732-and the two papers increased their lion's share of the total advertising carried by all major New York papers from 23.4% to 30.6%. Pitted against the Times, the rival Herald Tribune floundered badly. Its circulation held steady at about half the Times...