Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Such relentless optimism provides ready ammunition to those who would prefer to gloss over genuine problems. Statistics documenting what Wallenberg, in a dreadful stylislic lapse, calls the "deeliticization of American higher education," say nothing about the quality of life on campus. Nor does the claim that aimless retirement or a dreary nursing 'home are belter for the elderly than "dying in the traces" provide much comfort for hungry old people languishing on park benches...
...week, the postoperative black eyes and discolored skin thus exposed were in very living color. It turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years, had her real-life face surgically elevated earlier in the month. The show's relentless producers, recognizing a heart-rending episode when they saw one, arranged for art to imitate lift. Margo and Eileen are facing their new face with equanimity: "It's no different from having one's hair colored or teeth capped." Or eyes debagged, an off-screen drama that Actress...
...been running a segment of Burlington that was generating a hearty share of the company's earnings. Indeed, Klopman, a tall, lantern-jawed New Yorker who had helped his father run a family company that Burlington bought in 1956, is known throughout the industry for his relentless desire to wring out maximum profit...
Richard Nixon often suggested that he was personally essential to world peace and prosperity, and it was a notion that played even longer and louder outside the U.S. than it did in Peoria. For many months there was general agreement in a number of foreign capitals that the relentless pursuit of Nixon through Watergate amounted to a kind of dangerously irresponsible "lynch law," as a strident London Times editorial put it a year ago. But by last week overseas perceptions of the nature of America's often puzzling struggle over Watergate had changed almost completely. As a comment...
...Harlot Killer, also known as Jack the Ripper. For The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer "uncovers" another manuscript, detailing the adventures of the stately Holmes of England in his struggle against the temptations of "nose candy." He also trots out all the old Baker Street regulars: Toby the relentless mongrel; the world's longest-suffering landlady, Mrs. Hudson; Myrcroft, Sherlock's corpulent elder brother; and Dr. James Moriarty-in a new role as innocent bystander...