Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartmouth used excellent ball movement on offense and relentless pressure on the defensive end of the floor to rattle the Ivy League champions and eventually record the upset. A sloppy Harvard squad committed 24 turnovers on the night, which the Big Green converted into 27 points...
...mayor. What might be considered the Frank Perdue school of urban analysis holds that Giuliani is popular precisely because New Yorkers, now more optimistic about the possibility that the city might be manageable after all, see him as the sort of person it takes to do the managing--a relentless proctor who is burdened by neither a sense of irony nor a sense of proportion. Once you put yourself in the hands of someone like that, of course, you'd better take care to cross the street only at designated crosswalks...
...event proved to be a nail-biter, as Iwahara took the lead from the start and tried to hold off her relentless competitors. The last 10 yards gave her Princeton rival just enough time to take the victory by one tenth of a second...
With two preliminary runs and two finals, the halfpipe riders powered through the relentless downpour, pumping up the resilient crowd that lined the course in bleachers and stood thousands deep at the bottom. In the end, Swiss rider Gian Simmen managed to edge out Norwegian Daniel Franck in the day's last run for the gold medal. American Ross Powers hung on for bronze with huge airs and rapid rotations. Germany's Nicola Thost took the first women's halfpipe gold and Norway's Stine Brun Kjeldaas picked up the silver. American Shannon Dunn slipped slightly just before...
...garden apartment in inland Florida, an hour from the ocean. She and Robert, afoot beside the Florida highway, have their Thanksgiving dinner at the Chirping Chicken and try to come to terms with their memories of the good Bobby and the bad Bobby--knowing all the while that the relentless Bobby is out there and after them: a heartbreaking game of hide-and-seek. Quindlen understands the dilemmas of these lives, never exaggerates, and captures the evil perfectly because (if this makes sense) she never demonizes...