Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team at first was clearly not the "clockwork orange" of the 1974 tournament (orange because of its uniforms and clockwork because everything it tried worked that way until the final against West Germany). It was a Dutch concept of "total football"-no stratagem at all but a blazing and relentless rush of soccer in which every team member played both attack and defense-that had dazzled the '74 tournament and given hope to soccer theorists that the days of the clogged, cupping defense that had slowed down soccer in the '60s might be over. But in 1978, even...
...only verdict was that the Chinese "government had let these people die, or ignorantly starved them to death. The government was fighting a war against Japan; it was relentless in collecting taxes for the war. But since it did not trust its own paper money, its armies in the field were instructed to collect taxes in grain and kind for their own support. ("If the people die," said an officer to me, "the land will still be Chinese. But if the soldiers starve, the Japanese will take the land.") The army had emptied the countryside of food; shipped...
...reporter's notebook and more the work of a man who has come too close to tragedy ever to treat it clinically. This is Breslin at his best, the fire of a man caught in the midst of a horror he cannot understand, and the ice of a relentless chronicler of the evils of modern times. But these passages, sadly, don't sell as many copies as the blood-and-guts, psycho-killer-on-the-loose scenes--a fact of which Breslin and Schaap have obviously been apprised...
...album is concerned with sex, love, dreams and survival. The greatest works of art are nearly always probing these themes, and Jagger's lyrics are honest because in their irony and pity they reflect the ambiguities that color these themes in reality. The Stones' music once again is as relentless and streamlined a vehicle for Jagger's visions as it was in 1972. Now the problem is how much longer the show can go on without one of its main starts...
Unwary politicians have been known to be seized by a malady normally found among spiritual leaders. In their relentless pursuit of evil, the lonely champions who bring enlightenment sometimes convince themselves that the more they suffer the better they are. In recent months, time and time again, Carter has pointed out that his decline in the polls has been due to his determination to do what others would not do, to be right when others were wrong...