Word: relentlessness
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TIME MAGAZINE, the preacher to the Nation, is fond of weighing the returns from Harvard heavily when it sifts through the mounds of evidence that pour through its good offices. In its relentless search for national patterns and trends, the Magazine seizes upon even the most insignificant rumors floating out of Cambridge as the harbingers of nationwide change...
...government decided to use the police. Its timing was perfect. At least half of France was away on its relentless August holiday. Even so, 5,000 people demonstrated outside the Lip plant after the raid, and 20 were injured. Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand and others were determined to make political capital out of L'Affaire Lip, even if they had to await la rentrée, Frenchmen's mass return from vacation. On any brand of watch, it was a tense time in France...
American policymakers justified the relentless bombardment on the grounds that it was meant to interdict North Vietnamese troops moving south into southern Vietnam and that it would also protect Laos from a purported North Vietnamese "invasion...
...Senate's self-appointed constitutional watchdog, Ervin, for all of his courtliness and mirth, approaches his investigation with a relentless seriousness. He told TIME'S Neil MacNeil last week: "As. an American who loves his country and venerates the institution of the presidency, I indulge the presumption that the President has no connection with the Watergate affair or its coverup. Candor compels me to say that the President is making it very difficult to entertain this presumption if he withholds from the committee the records and the tapes which I believe contain information which is relevant to establish...
...President's mood, said Warren, was "very good"; he discussed the business at hand "with determination." But after the upbeat and invigorating week of the Brezhnev summit, Nixon found himself hemmed in by Dean's relentless Watergate testimony on one hand and on the other by a recalcitrant Congress determined to force him to stop bombing Cambodia...