Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place on the desk that John Kennedy retrieved from the White House basement. But a Remington bronze of a cowboy and the paintings on the curved walls are from the defunct presidency of Jimmy Carter. The huge grandfather clock installed by President Ford still thumps out its relentless rhythm. Beyond the tall windows, the sun slants across the South Lawn, where Thomas Jefferson had mounds graded to add visual interest. Fresh-cut flowers burst from a vase on the coffee table and a mug of jelly beans sits near a lamp...
...accomplishments, though, Suárez failed in one democratic essential: he was unable to mold a coherent political party out of the disparate centrist and conservative groupings that made up his Union of the Democratic Center (U.C.D.). Last week, fed up with relentless sniping within his party, Suárez, 48, acted with uncharacteristic boldness and resigned his posts both as head of the government and party leader...
...most of the evening. Northeastern penetrated the Crimson zone, spraying relentless booming slapshots at the Harvard defense and netminder Cheryl Tate, who despite nursing a minor knee injury which kept her from skating at Wednesday's practice, steered aside 32 Huskie drives...
...released months ago and at last felt free to speak. The full story of their ordeal is far from told. The first fragmentary reports indicated that the hostages were not subjected to the physical tortures that Iranians have inflicted on each other for centuries, but the Americans did suffer relentless psychological abuse and physical mistreatment that ring in American ears as a tale of horror...
...Huskies, however, were resilient and relentless--in a word, dogged. Gerry Cowie, Paul MacDougall and Sandy Beadle whisked all over the ice for the heretofore hapless Huntington Hounds, who had never struck Beanpot gold in the tourney's 27 years...