Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson resumed the relentless pressure as the second half opened, with Chris Harvey hitting the crossbar off a direct kick and another shot just missing wide right following a two-on-one breakaway. At 23:35, Ted Widmere knocked home goal number two after a quick give-and-go play with Harvey...
Douglas' judicial philosophy was a relentless defense of individual rights. His nearly absolutist views on the subject brooked no debate. His preference, he admits, was for "creating precedent," not "finding it." If he does not describe the give and take of court procedures, it is probably because he held aloof from most of them. He quotes the observation of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes: "Ninety percent of any decision is emotional...
...offense as a whole is still feeling its way a little bit, the defense has been relentless. The ball stayed in the Tufts' end of the field for a full three quarters of the game, partly because of the "Tufts' sag," but also a result of the tough play of the Crimson midfielders, who continually turned the Jumbos break-outs around...
...stolidly relentless vehicle of Marxism lumbers through history toward the light, its honored cargo has always been a rather dense abstraction called "the proletariat." But Karl Marx never lavished much bourgeois sentimentality on the proletariat in person, on real workers as individuals. In their private correspondence, Marx and Engels even referred to them as "stupid asses...
...trouble with this policy, which was adopted during the Eisenhower years, is that the conditions upon which it rests have changed, primarily because of the relentless buildup of Soviet strategic forces and the vast improvement in the accuracy of the Kremlin's nuclear warheads. The Soviets have achieved at least strategic parity with the U.S.; at the current rate of increase, the Kremlin is certain to attain clear-cut superiority in just a few more years. And despite its outcry against the Presidential Directive, Moscow has already deployed a very sizable counterforce arsenal of its own against U.S. Minuteman...