Word: relentlessness
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Matter-of-factly, he recalled the first ugly weeks of capture. Sick from diarrhea, the Reds' prize prisoner was subjected to three relentless interrogations-one for a stretch of 68 hours, one for 44 hours, and one for 32 hours. His bottom got so sore that he sat for hours on his hands, until those, too, became swollen and sore...
Hundreds of spectators, mostly husbands, wives and children of the shooters, watched, off and on, in passive silence. The contests, all scored by relentless addition, had no climaxes. No one cheered. Many sat with eyes glued to mounted telescopes trained on the targets. Each evening, cease-fire came with the slowly fading light. Life for everyone at Camp Perry, by noisy day and quiet night, was a pleasant summer bivouac. They slept on cots in Perry's concrete-floored hutments (billeting: $1 a day), ate cafeteria-style in a big mess hall, stole off to the beach, a stone...
Humphrey's hope of getting more of the U.S. debt into long-term bonds is being still further deferred by relentless facts. Last week he faced the problem of refunding $8 billion of maturing World War II bonds, which were fairly long-term (ten years). To refinance them on a long-term basis would cost prohibitive interest rates. Instead, Humphrey announced he would offer the holders a choice of one-year certificates at 2#&8541;%, or 3½-year Treasury notes at 2#&8542;%. That is short-term, and it is the highest interest the Government has ever...
Kinsey's only concession to the social amenities is to hold Sunday-evening record recitals. But he is no relaxed amateur. He is a relentless musicologist, and his soirees are an exacting ritual. He plans a carefully balanced program and gathers material for commentary. Guests arrive on the stroke of 8 and are seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies...
...Kenya sun, bearded, burly Kenyatta and his five followers were taken into custody once more. In South Nyeri, Mau Mau terrorists had just killed 13 loyal Kikuyu. In London, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told Laborite critics in the House of Commons that, in Britain's relentless and increasingly successful counter-efforts, 1,300 suspected Mau Maus have been killed...