Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journey, taking three to four months at times, under daily U.S. bombing and strafing. Perhaps as much as 50% of the materiel intended for what Hanoi calls "the big front line" (as distinguished from "the big rear" in North Viet Nam) never reaches South Viet Nam, thanks to the relentless bombing of the route...
...himself, to perpetrate in language "the gestures of a life that is nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on the tragic predicament of the self in time. Even on brief vacations from eschatology in lyric gardens where
...Stomach. In Danang, Ky's strategy was simple but relentless. His 3,000 loyal troops-marines, airborne and Rangers-slowly drove the rebel force of 1,200 into an eight-block area centering on the east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset, neither side had any stomach for killing: most of the gunfire was purposely aimed high. Government tanks cleared street after street, carefully hosing them with .50-cal. machine-gun fire as they moved forward. Government spotter planes circled the rebel area, dropping leaflets that announced the appointment of General Huynh...
Dominate the Subject. Can he? In Minneapolis in 1962, John F. Biron, 18, admitted mugging an old woman, who later died. Accidentally, his lawyer discovered a police tape that showed how Biron had endured hours of relentless grilling by two hypnotic detectives. ("You're the fella's gonna determine how long you're gonna be buried. You got the shovel. You're diggin' the hole.") Only the tape showed how the detectives had repeatedly lied in promising to send Biron to juvenile court, even though he was legally an adult. When he talked, they charged...
...reckoning of the late Lucius Beebe, who finished this gossipy and amusing book shortly before he died in February at 63, Brady was a gross arriviste, strictly a spender without class. Himself a relentless connoisseur, a professional dandy, and perhaps the best known boulevardier of his time, Social Chronicler Beebe held that the true test of spenders of distinction was not necessarily how they rid themselves of substantial sums of money but rather how closely they subscribed to the dictum of the late Gene Fowler: "Money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains." As an example...