Word: relentlessness
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...Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back to her beloved Paris, and a Parisian lover, does she come glowingly to life, and then in vain, such is the relentless requirement of her position...
...plasterer named Garvey once got $133,187.20 for two days' work from the City. How much Tweed took back no one knows, but he gave $1,800,000 to his two mistresses and the "Ring" once offered the New York Times $5,000,000 to cease" its relentless and ultimately successful exposures...
Sleeping under paper umbrellas, and dumping the wounded in pits with the dead, the relentless forces of the Chinese Nationalist army on their northern trek, have provoked the inevitable conflict with Japan. Because this advance endangered the rich Japanese province of Manchuria, and because the Nationalist government is bitterly anti-foreign, such an outbreak has been long foreseen; and because the rivalry which underlies it is basic, the settling agencies are likely to be quilted coolies with machine guns rather than occidentalized diplomats...
...after defeat in the World War. Her currency is still debased, her people impoverished. She is disarmed, and yet her public peace is menaced by the organized brigands of Macedonia. Therefore when 30 earthquake shocks smote Bulgaria, last week, the phenomena seemed like the act of a malignant and relentless...
Author Johnston shows no trace of youthfulness in the grim story she tells with relentless force, compassion, and restraint...