Word: relentlessness
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...getting about 20 words to a sheet, words which he cannot see, although he peers at them through a thick goggle. After he has finished the first draft of a piece, it is read back to him, and he makes oral revisions sentence by sentence. Thurber always was a relentless reviser (he rewrote The White Deer 25 times) so that his composition has become slow and painful. Nevertheless, in the past ten years he has written and published more than he did in the previous...
...Chinese refugees, from statements by Red deserters and prisoners of war in Korea, and, above all, from the insistent testimony of the Red press and radio, one fact was clear: Red China's masters are not only waging war against the U.S. in Korea; they are waging a relentless war on their own people. So far, the Korean war has cost China an estimated 500,000 casualties (including wounded); the Red bosses' terror has cost China's people three times that much...
...through U.N. lines at one point; U.N. officers in Korea speculated that the Chinese might try to follow through with a series of such one-punch attacks. No one in Korea doubted that the Chinese would try again. But the basic situation-Chinese hurling masses of manpower against relentless U.N. firepower-would not change, unless the Reds decide to commit their air force...
...Nazis, though they herded millions into death camps, made an effort to cover up their iniquities. The Russians broadcast and filmed their relentless show trials of the '30's, but they chose to execute the accused in the privacy of an NKVD cellar. But the Chinese Communists have put on a public spectacle of death which the 20th Century has not witnessed since the Russian Revolution in 1917. Since the Red Terror began in China two months ago, the scene had become so familiar from a dozen broadcasts and newspaper stories that its enormity had almost been lost...
...Rhythm. By the time they got to the finals against satellite Czechoslovakia, the Russians had gone a long way toward proving their theory that heavy, relentless pressure will, in the long run, always win. "It's not technique," explained Captain Lissov, "so much as physical condition and rhythm." After balletlike warmups, the Russians invariably pounded on to the court and confounded opponents with rifle passes, cat-quick ball handling, and a rough & ready determination to get the ball off the backboards. Best Russian play: a fast U.S.-style break, three or four sleight-of-hand passes under the basket...