Word: relentlessness
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...Infiltrators. This relentless and growing infiltration of the border states now constitutes a military threat to India's hard-won freedom. The border states will not let Indian troops come in to guard their passes, and neither their own forces nor the mountains can keep the infiltrators away. Furthermore, the terrain is perfectly suited for guerrilla warfare, with deep-cut gorges and forests to hide the guerrillas, and hillside villages which can serve as listening posts, strongpoints, and arms depots...
...that golden dome with the statue of our Blessed Mother all lighted up, and it was one of the biggest thrills of my life. I got kind of choked up, and I was awful glad I came here." The Notre Dame indoctrination, particularly of football players, is as relentless as the Marine Corps boot training. Johnny recalls: "The first night, they showed the movie Knute Rockne-All American, with Pat O'Brien and Ronald Reagan [portraying Notre Dame's first football All-America, George Gipp]." Lattner, who was one day to become...
...revolutionaries are relentless, "experimenting with variations of designs they're thinking about" 24 hours a day. Their arsenal id technologically advanced, functional and efficient." It is subject to change at any moment. The instigators "kick it around a little," but "don't even own some of it." Many of the weapons are wood, others light metal, and the rest a combination of both. Some of it is even on wheels...
...wrist, portable sunshine at his elbow, the little darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...
...state assembly's judiciary committee and never returned to private practice; he has been a lawyer in government ever since. He was deputy city attorney for Oakland in 1919-20, deputy district attorney for Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda) in 1920-25, district attorney in 1925-39. A relentless prosecutor, he convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft, convicted Alameda's mayor for bribery and theft of public funds. None of his convictions was ever reversed on appeal, but none of them gave him particular pleasure. Said he: "I never...