Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy's role in the Grumman affair points to another problem in controlling foreign bribery: the Pentagon's relentless push to increase exports of U.S.-made weapons. U.S. military-assistance groups are constantly touting the benefits of American arms in almost every non-Communist country where the U.S. has an embassy. Once military officers determine that a foreign government is interested, they will put it in touch with U.S. companies that can supply the weapons required, and try to help clinch a deal...
...mentally, if not physically. The victim sits surrounded by his fellow inmates, head bowed, as they hurl phrases like "Down with the obstinate prisoner" or "Confess or face the consequences." Sometimes forbidden words, "liar," "scum" or "son of a bitch" slip in--and the gang's abuse is too relentless for comedy. Even a strong-willed victim's only out is to pretend to confess sincerely, and the realization that he must acquiesce to struggling eventually makes him as complacent as one who could never resist...
...sallies into international diplomacy have been marred by little things like tripping on the airplane ramp in Salzburg, or finding himself yucking it up with a geisha named Honorable Treasure Pleasure in Japan while the U.S. stock market plummeted and Chrysler Corp. announced it was closing five plants. His relentless political assault on the American people last fall is now regarded by almost every opinion analyst as a major factor in his year-end decline in the polls...
Purged Victims. The chief trouble the astrologer endured was relentless persecution by the Royal College of Physicians. The established doctors resented the healing business that Forman diverted from them. He had learned what little medicine he knew "under a hedge." Forman replied that he had kept up his practice in London during the plague of 1592-93, when most respectable physicians had fled to the country. Rowse takes Forman's side. Judging from surviving records, the untutored amateur seems to have wreaked less carnage than the certified practitioners who bled or purged victims at the drop of a symptom...
...three years as New York State's special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket...