Word: relentlessness
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Greying Mrs. Wilson sailed into her charges like a relentless sheepdog. She wanted no fancy writing, none of the "feminine things like the names of flowers, descriptions of dresses, and things that women talk about." And no invented quotes. They must get that through their heads. "Send me what people actually say, not what you think they should...
Neither Honey nor Sting. It was the Jews' relentless pioneer zeal as well as the pressure of Jewish numbers that troubled and angered the Arab world. But it was numbers that caused the present crisis. Should 100,000 more Jews be permitted to migrate to Palestine immediately from the "displaced persons" camps of Europe...
...avalanche that had fallen upon price controls was only one more in a series of Administration disasters in the current Congress. Through every storm Alben Barkley had been plunged into the heroic task of guiding colleagues no longer inclined to be led. Last week he continued the relentless watch he had stood over the British loan, Selective Service, the atomic-energy bill and a host of favored Administration causes...
After seven war years the men's singles were as spotty as critics had guessed they would be. But the standard of women's play was high. The women's tournament was dominated by a quartet of California girls, relentless in their success, who all reached the semi-finals of the women's singles...
Seven UNRRA specialists flew from Italy to Sardinia, island of clannish shepherds and tiny donkeys. From the sky the experts saw what looked like blobs of molasses oozing over green baize. Their task was to stop the oozing-the relentless march of billions of locusts...