Word: relentlessness
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...headquarters, a sprawling, ugly brick building on the outskirts of London, Eaker works with relentless energy from 8 o'clock each morning until late at night. At his residence, a modern house in suburban surroundings with tennis court and a golf course near by, he entertains all kinds of people at large and frequent parties. Eaker is a thoughtful host who not infrequently will pay more attention to a. U.S. lieutenant awed by the gold braid of air marshals than to the air marshals themselves...
When these words were published in the German press five weeks ago, the long-awaited, ill-fated German summer offensive of 1943 had not yet spent its strength. Last week, after a relentless, inch-by-inch, 24-day counterdrive, the powerful Red Army seized Orel and drove on. For nearly two years Orel had been a key bastion of Hitler's forces in Russia. Now the Wehrmacht's high command issued a terse communiqué: "In the course of a shortening of the front in the Orel bend, the evacuation of the city of Orel, which had been...
...joint communiqué of the British Admiralty and Air Ministry last week: A force of U-boats estimated to number between 25 and 30 . . . was subjected to such a relentless assault by surface escorts of the Royal Navy and by aircraft of the Coastal Command that the enemy was denied the opportunity to launch even one attack against a large and valuable eastbound convoy...
Vladimir Horowitz owes his enormous following to the most amazingly fleet, powerful and accurate fingers in the pianistic world. He can trill with the relentless evenness of a mechanical drill. He can rip off a scale of octaves with a glittering finish that few of his contemporaries can even approach. His performances invariably crackle with electric virtuosity...
...Nerves. Because it commands a widespread network of communications, A.P. has been able to trumpet its side of the anti-trust suit up & down the land. The war of nerves has been relentless. Hundreds of papers, either A.P. members or sympathetic, have plumped editorially for A.P. A.P.'s General Manager Kent Cooper last fall published a book (Barriers Down) in which he pictured A.P. as a ceaseless, unselfish fighter against monopoly. A.P. has itself published two large volumes containing hundreds of pro-A.P. editorials from A.P. papers...