Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuff is designed to try to communicate some very complex ideas to them. I'm sorry it's being used on you as well." The argument did not go down well with a disgruntled Soviet correspondent, who might have been expected to be more tolerant of the relentless ideologizing. "This is all silly schoolboy rhetoric," he said. "Let's get out and see the war, dammit...
...long had a brass-knuckle reputation. It was founded by William M. Keck, a flamboyant wildcatter ever on the alert for new oil, fresh profits and the main chance. In this pursuit, President Howard B. Keck, who took over at his father's death in 1964, is also relentless. Superior's success at sniffing out crude deposits has made it a darling of the New York Stock Exchange; last week its shares shot up 18 points to hit 279 and thus become the highest priced stock on the Big Board, ahead of IBM. Highly profitable (earnings were...
Meagher, the most recent in a long line of B.U. hockey royalty, tallied a hat trick for the night. On the other end of the ice, Terrier goaltender Jim Craig turned in a commendable job in the nets with 41 saves in the face of a relentless RPI attack led by Ron Tomassoni...
...years Chamorro had been a relentless critic of Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza and his family, who have ruled the nation for more than four oppressive decades. His death caused a political earthquake in Nicaragua, and his funeral quickly dissolved into a political event. A crowd swelling to 40,000 followed the coffin from the hospital mortuary to Chamorro's home and then to La Prensa's office. The angry marchers moved on to burn a Somoza-owned textile mill and a commercial blood bank that Chamorro had exposed for selling Nicaraguan blood abroad at a lucrative profit. Some...
...ardent fans in filmdom, Begelman is a show-biz wizard who helped save a major studio from bankruptcy. To his enemies, he is a relentless competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter...