In my childhood I was known as an extremely persistent questioner, so much that in school I was allowed to ask no more than three per period so that I would not take up all the time.

Hope asked the greatest number of questions, 782, while Tite, who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope's stylistic bias, was a persistent questioner, with 426 questions.

Their safety lay in the fact that they were Spanish; they could (and would) roundly abuse and probably draw a knife on any persistent questioner.

At another rally, Howe dismissed a persistent Liberal questioner, saying "Look here, my good man, when the election comes, why don't you just go away and vote for the party you support?

A diversion of some sort was needed to keep the more persistent questioners at bay.

The impeachment provision "exists to deal with issues that are determined to be impeachable," Mr. Collins replied to a persistent questioner.

The other Yank is Jim Courier, who fires off the odd obscenity in public and kicked a tennis ball like a soccer midfielder and yesterday offered to do a little "one-on-one interview" with a persistent questioner.

AT his home in Manhattan, Sidney Thrake was seated behind a table in an upstairs room, facing two persistent questioners - Commissioner Weston and Joe Cardona.

"What the hell, yes," was Mr. Noziger's reply to the persistent questioner, Joseph Alioto, the former mayor of San Francisco who was the attorney for a number of California rice cooperatives.

Lesley Stahl, who manages "Face the Nation," has developed into a admirably persistent questioner who doesn't mind being a touch offensive in the interests of dredging forth a comprehensible answer from a reluctant biggie.