Word: relentlessly
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...Rolfe division title with a 5-4 win in the nightcap. When Harvard had only pride to gain, its Achilles’ heel—an inability to keep pace with the best Ivy League lineups—came back to haunt it once again. Dartmouth’s relentless offense, highlighted by Nick Santomauro, Michael Pagliarulo, and Damon Wright in the three-, four-, and five-holes, gave Crimson pitching trouble all afternoon. “We were just trying to go after them and not give them any free bases,” said freshman catcher Tyler Albright...
...finally address some huge problems. But that assumption hit a wall in Pennsylvania. Specifically, it hit a wall at the debate staged by ABC News in Philadelphia - viewed by an audience of 10 million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians - that will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions, with the first 40 minutes focused exclusively on so-called character issues rather than policy. Obama was on the defensive from the start, but gradually the defensiveness morphed into bitter frustration. He kept his cool - a very presidential character trait - and allowed his disdain to show only...
...first time all year, things finally came together for the Harvard baseball team. The Crimson combined a relentless offensive attack with two complete-game efforts from its veteran starters, taking 9-3 and 5-2 victories from Brown yesterday at O’Donnell Field. As it completed its first weekend sweep of 2008, Harvard was all smiles. “Better late than never,” senior Brad Unger said. “We’ve had some breaks go against us in the past couple weeks, so it feels good...
...Even in Syria, however, rug buying can be intimidating for the beginner. Innumerable variations of region, style and quality make establishing the value of any particular rug daunting. And then there's the relentless bazaar bargaining that can turn any transaction a microcosmic "clash of cultures" between in which straight-forward, naïve Westerners imagine themselves being conned by wily, opaque "Orientals...
...family’s loyalty to the Tiger cause.The reader comes to love Yalini, with her appreciation for the sacrifices her parents have made for her, her pure childhood passion for books (“Sometimes I sat for hours, poring over the medical dictionary”), and her relentless research into her family’s history through conversations with relatives, especially her father and her uncle. During her genealogical exploration, Yalini comes to realize that she is the product of her ancestors, most resembling an aunt named Uma who was brilliant but suffered from an undefined mental disorder...