Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whooshing across the political skies for all to see last week was Jack Kennedy in his jet-propelled bandwagon. Behind him lay nearly two years of a most expert and relentless pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, a campaign so finely machined, so thoroughly organized, so carefully fashioned for a single purpose that professional politicians fairly mopped their brows and goggled at what they saw. Said Illinois' old political pro Jake Arvey (who could scarcely cling any longer to Adlai Stevenson's star) : "Kennedy's got this country laid out like one big switchboard. He knows what...
Nikita Khrushchev is a man who came to power in the Stalinist school, who has dispatched his enemies with relentless political cunning and pressed the harsh realities of Soviet foreign policy from Berlin to Hungary, with tanks and troops. Viewed in the light of his aims, methods and past behavior, Khrushchev's outburst was a calculated tactical thrust that fitted into a sinister pattern of alternating promises and punches. Purpose behind the pattern: to destroy U.S. prestige around the globe by stirring doubt and divisions within the U.S., by straining the bonds between the U.S. and its allies...
...game her father taught her, "the glad game." Object of the game: to find the silver lining in every cloud, the gold tooth in every shark. And Pollyanna plays the game with such a monstrous power of positive thinking that after two hours and 14 minutes under that relentless little ray of sunshine, the whole town she lives in is dissolved into a mile-wide meringue of mawkishness. At a big charity bazaar, they all sing America the Beautiful, and later somebody bursts out sobbing: "Just think! If she had never come to this town! We ought to get down...
Everyman's Problem. As Jon tries to pin Peter down long enough to sober him up and give him another last chance, Endless Road becomes a relentless chase sequence through Chicago's flossy and sleazy bars, plush and fleabag hotels, punctuated with impromptu shackups. Contrary to prevalent opinion, Author Treat argues that the real alcoholic is a man of satyrical urges and astonishing potency. At novel's end, a penitently sober Peter is entraining for dry New Mexico desert country-but with his hand ominously poised on the doorknob...
...joke, debated with himself (as he later recalled) about whether it was fit for the air waves, won the debate, and proceeded to tell the story. At 10 p.m., the taping of his show completed, Paar went home to Bronxville. And that was the moment when history pointed a relentless finger at Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., a broadcasting veteran (for 15 years vice president at ABC) who had been brought to NBC after the quiz scandals to serve as director of the network's Department of Standards and Practices...