Word: relentlessness
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Lion's Share. Despite its good grey editorial tone, the Times is a lively and politely relentless competitor in the scramble for subscribers and ads. From 1947 through last year, the daily Times's circulation climbed from 543,583 to 638,006, the Sunday Times from 1,092,054 to 1,285,732-and the two papers increased their lion's share of the total advertising carried by all major New York papers from 23.4% to 30.6%. Pitted against the Times, the rival Herald Tribune floundered badly. Its circulation held steady at about half the Times...
...pastorate for almost 14 years, is known as the best man with a grease gun in the business. He has a phenomenal memory (which serves him well on a dais or a Double-Crostic), a lawyer's avidity for meticulous briefing, and relentless persistence. Elected president of Lutheran World Relief after World War II, he ranged Europe on a mammoth repair job that was just as much spiritual as material. "It wasn't just a question of relief," he explains. "Danish and Norwegian Lutherans hated German Lutherans; they felt contempt for Swedish Lutherans. No one would talk...
...jockey is a pretty humble man, even though it might not show through"), the spin-and-spielers set up a lament about such bosses as Host Storz, a onetime disk jockey whose four-station chain (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans, Miami) makes big profits out of relentless plugging of the "Top 40" pop tunes. They protested that this formula is turning the disk jockey into an automaton, stripping him of the "personality" that is his stock in trade...
...apparently unfazed by the disaffection of one of France's few remaining supporters in North Africa, promptly made matters worse. Racked by lumbago, Gaillard painfully hauled himself to the National Assembly, won his tenth vote of confidence (286 to 147) by promising to pursue the Algerian war with relentless vigor and to dispatch 28,000 more French troops to join the 500,000 already fighting the Algerian rebels. While he politicked, Gaillard left U.S. Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley cooling their heels, thus deliberately stalling their "good offices" mission to settle the rankling dispute...
...declare war upon you-excuse me for using such an expression-in the peaceful field of trade . . . We are relentless in this, and it will prove the superiority of our system...