Word: relentlessness
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...prevent the Wildcats from making much headway onto the Crimson’s side of the pitch during the initial 45 minutes.Of the six first-period shots Harvard allowed, none presented serious threats.“The best defense for us, especially in this game, was trying to stay relentless, not letting down offensively,” Nichols said. “I don’t think we played at the same level that we started the game with throughout the game, but we never stopped trying to go to goal, and that’s why we played...
...relentless Crimson attack struck again for its fourth and final goal when Akpan sent a ball over the Stony Brook defense and Mitchell finished with a skillful...
...Naipaul explores the effects of policies such as Tanzanian dictator Julius Nyerere’s “ujamaa” on the ground. He writes with pitiless, unflinching accuracy and cynicism, never failing to completely evoke the abject poverty and horrors that he witnesses. This relentless honesty earned him accusations of racism in his lifetime and has ensured that the book remains relatively obscure, its truths too uncomfortable for the self-selecting blindness of a West devoted to political correctness first and foremost. In truth, Naipaul is not a racist, nor any kind of bigot. He is certainly less...
...Many Americans find it hard to feel sorry for Valladares and all the other Floridians who pay no state income tax. Floridians are indeed guilty of an arrogant belief that living in "paradise" should be a birthright as cheap as gassing up an SUV. It was, until Florida's relentless and miserably planned growth spawned problems that the peninsula is struggling to handle, including skyrocketing property taxes and hurricane-insurance premiums. Governor Charlie Crist has tried in recent years to rein in those twin vampires, but together they can still exceed what folks in many other states pay for state...
...that eco-therapy is less a practical psychological treatment than a timely philosophy that connects common feelings of isolation and stress with the fact that the world in which we live is slowly becoming something it shouldn't be. And with worsening climate change and a relentless drumbeat of bad news about our endangered environment, it seems our eco-anxiety may be far from being cured. "Ultimately, what we need to do is change human behavior," says Buzzell-Saltzman - a commonsense recommendation for humans as well as the environment...