Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, DeMichele had picked up his second goal, and Crimson goaltender Bruce Durno turned aside 12 Indian shots to hold off the Dartmouth power play. With a relentless flurry of short-range passing Paul and Bob Havern set up McManama at 14:30, and Harvard was out of danger...
...bother those who were not there ? the mounting shame, and the relentless exposure at least testified to the still-active conscience of America. The guilt of My Lai has to be shared by the nation that raised the soldiers, by the Army that trained...
Palimpsest. After Pat's stroke, Roald settled the family in their country house outside London. He set up a relentless therapy schedule and organized relay teams of visitors to keep the patient's morale up. Pat's principal enemy was despair. Her career seemed shattered. Her right leg was bracketed in an unsightly brace, and her brain was as faint and blurry as a palimpsest. She fished in vain for the names of common objects. Even Peter Rabbit eluded...
TRANSLATED into political terms, the Great Refusal means the refusal to be co-opted. The social revolutionaries already have been. Frustrated by the technocracy's relentless inhumanity, they have come to hold some ideas more important than some human beings, and to place more value on some human beings than on other human beings. Just like the technocracy...
...dining with their patrons by night, he is equally at home in the scruffy lofts of Canal Street and the elegant appointments of the Dakota. But as a judge, he is obliged to keep a certain detachment-and it is on this score that he is most often criticized. Relentless in promoting artists he likes, Geldzahler is equally inflexible in ignoring those he does...