Word: relentlessness
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...relentless prosecution failed to win its case. That week, the last in February, eight of Oslo's eleven underground papers failed to appear. Last week all eleven came out on schedule...
...Germans tried to keep the device secret. Only when the relentless bombings showed that the Allies knew what was afoot did the Germans begin bragging about the weapon's destructive potentialities. Correspondent Sulzberger's conclusion: the weapon has been pretty well spiked, cannot play any decisive role...
...Bracken's absence from Commons has left the real role of opposition leader to a man who has eagerly welcomed such a break. Socialist C.C.F. Chieftain Major James Coldwell attacks the administration of Mr. King and the platform of Mr. Bracken as cut from the same pattern of relentless stodginess...
Jimmy is also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire...
...result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose the all-important Negro vote...