Word: relentlessness
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...Force Major Robert M. White -the 1961 Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astro nautics in the U.S." fell to a currently sub-sea-level Naval aviator who has been deskbound in Washington since 1955. The Collier winner: Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., relentless ramrod of project Polaris...
Because he is a gentleman, De Gaulle will be polite. Because he is De Gaulle, he will be relentless in pressing his case. But De Gaulle, a man who has just suffered the humiliation of seeing some of his top generals in mutiny against him, was in no position to condescend, even if his young guest is little more than half...
...preserve their pure blood must practice incest. Among his family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having been her "brother's whore," becomes a Mandingo youth's relentless seducer. Among the play's activities are brutal floggings, slaves who maul and kill one another while their masters bet on them, the daughter-in-law's horsewhipping her pregnant rival to death, and the planter's murdering first his son and then...
...courage-for-a-cause. Hero Richard Widmark starts out believing that "everybody's learned to live by compromise," changes his mind after he and the audience have spent 112 minutes of sadism, gunplay, torture, capture and escape, cliffhanging, ledge-crawling, escape and capture. It is easily the most relentless movie chase since The Great Train Robbery...
...jobs have disappeared in U.S. industry, and another million in agriculture. In such heavy-employment industries as automaking and steel, automation and technological improvements permit more production with fewer men. Other industries, such as mining, transportation and textiles, which once employed great numbers of workers, have fallen into a relentless, long-term decline. Employment has been growing in the service trades, in white-collar jobs, in finance, insurance, real estate and state and local government. But many who lost out in the factory have been unable or unwilling to make the switchover. The main groups caught in this "hard core...