Word: relentlessness
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...right's relentless drive for total control of the new government was blocked only at the last minute. Weeks of none too subtle pressure from the U.S. had convinced the country's military commanders that a rightist monopoly of the most important jobs in the government might cause Congress to cut off military aid. Without Washington's largesse, which is expected to total $362 million in 1982, the military would be hamstrung in its fight against the leftist guerrillas seeking to topple the government. The generals therefore insisted on a respectable moderate as provisional President. Their preferred...
Muslim fanatics knocked its nose off, Greeks scrawled graffiti on its paws and Mamluk soldiers used its face as a rifle target. But the saddest indignity suffered over the centuries by Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza has stemmed from erosion, seemingly caused by a single enemy-the relentless desert wind. At the present rate of decay, experts say, the 64-foot-high figure could be reduced to a mound of dust in five to ten centuries...
...shame that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should...
These Arab governments never allow such contradictions to interfere in their relentless propaganda assaults on the Jewish state. One lesson we can learn from the mosque attack and the subsequent reaction is that political expediency takes precedence over honesty in the Arab world...
...stroll down the boulevard, decked out, more than likely, in some splendiferous Armani assemblage. The fact is, Saint Laurent remains the pale eminence of high fashion, in part because of his undisputed creative coups over the years, in part because of his huge volume of business and the relentless mythologizing of the fashion press. The fact is also that while Saint Laurent's contributions have been generative and historic, he has often appeared to be treading water (sparkling mineral, no doubt). Armani, meantime, has made a huge splash reshaping and restructuring the way people dress-not only the people...