Word: tirelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courts for more than seven years after the killers were finally caught. Mowed by technicalities and changes in the laws of admissible evidence, their trial amassed 45,000 pages of transcript, the longest in California court history. Wambaugh's narrative tends to plod whenever he plays the tireless gumshoe, hauling in facts that are, in the clarion cry of the myriad lawyers on the case, irrelevant and immaterial...
From April 30, 1945, when he returned to Germany from the Soviet Union (where he had spent the war years), Ulbricht was Moscow's man. Tireless and ruthless, he copied much of the repressive Soviet system. As head of the German Democratic Republic, he stamped out all political opposition, attempted to repress religion, and introduced a Stalinist-style censorship of all publications, broadcasts and literature. East German schools became Marxist indoctrination centers...
...cooperation is to turn down substantial benefits," he told Americans. "Mankind has outgrown the cold-war armor which it was once forced to wear. It wants to breathe freely and peacefully." The U.S. and Russia are only at the "beginning of a long road" that will require "constant care, tireless efforts and patience...
...theory that you can breed a brilliant sire of young speedballs with the daughter of a line of gallant and tireless plodders and thereby produce a superhorse may be entirely wrong. Indeed, many people think that all breeding theories are wrong. "What you really need to get a good foal," one expert has said, "is a male horse, a female-and a lot of luck...
...community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used to kid the mildly miniskirted Liz about having "the world's most wonderful legs." These days Liz's legs are often hidden behind a lectern: she is a tireless speaker on, among other topics, the question of amnesty for draft resisters...