Word: relentlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kenneth D. McKellar, Democrat from Tennessee, 81, relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas. Under the congressional rules which promote men by seniority instead of ability, Spoilsman McKellar wields immense power. As chairman of the Senate's money-spending machinery, he browbeats and bullies Senators who need his approval for their pet projects. He badgered David Lilienthal because Lilienthal refused to load TVA with McKellar patronage, yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee...
REFLECTIONS 59 on the Aisle Manhattan has the world's most inhuman subways, some of its most hopelessly snarled traffic and, in the public bars, its most relentless television sets; it also has some of the world's best music and drama. For four years, U.N. staff members have been exposed to the blessings as well as to the curses of their international capital. Last week,the New York Herald Tribune's Peter Kihss set out to discover how they like Manhattan culture...
...came fairly close to suicide in World War II. During the London blitz, Eliot spent two nights a week as a fire-watcher on the roof of his office building. From his perch above what he has often called the "unreal city," Eliot observed, with terror and compassion, the relentless fires. Had London's people (and with them, Western civilization) gone down then, Eliot's verse would have served as a magnificent and tender epitaph...
...Pearson, relentless in scalping others, bellowed as loudly as any victim of his own snickersnee. To Courier-Journal Publisher Mark Ethridge he fired off a testy, 2,000-word complaint about Day's aggressive and "unreasonable" attitude. Pearson even telephoned one of Reporter Day's former employers, Publisher James M. Cox of the Dayton, Ohio News, to check up on Day, triumphantly informed the Courier-Journal that Cox thought Day an "egotistical ass." As for Day's findings, Pearson brushed off the whole thing as a "how-many-angels-can-stand-on-the-point-of-a-needle...
...where the Russians spurned agreements and threw up the blockade, then backed down before the airlift and the West's show of strength. There was Greece, where Russia defied the U.N. to foment rebellion, then retreated before the persuasive weight of the Truman doctrine. There was Turkey, where relentless Soviet pressure was shut off by U.S. economic and military...