Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cadets were relentless in their domination, garnering first place in every event except the 200-yard backstroke, the 200-yard breaststroke anddiving...
...really pleased with the way the game went," Roby said after last night's game. "That helps us against Princeton. It just shows our guys that when teams try to slow it down and you're relentless with your pressure, you can get them to crack...
...showed our guys that when teams try to slow it down and you're relentless with your pressure, you can get them to crack," Roby said...
...leaders of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel have become folk heroes for their ability to escape the relentless pursuit of government security forces. Last week Pablo Escobar Gaviria, 39, a leader of the drug ring that controls 80% of the cocaine entering the U.S., pulled off one of the most impressive getaways. In an operation code named Against the Fortress, some 600 police and army troops raided a ranch 70 miles outside Medellin, but Escobar managed to elude them...
...story called An Exorcism, Bernard Malamud wrote of Eli Fogel, a middle-aged author suddenly saddled with a young acolyte named Gary Simson. Fogel enjoys the veneration, up to a point; his work has garnered moderate recognition and less money. But Simson's relentless requests for advice, tips on writing and letters of recommendation distract Fogel from his own efforts, in this case his slow progress in finishing another novel: "Perfection comes hard to an imperfectionist. He had visions of himself dying before the book was completed. It was a terrible thought: Fogel seated at the table, staring...