Word: relentlessness
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Local Censorship. The alleged attempt by the Socialist Zaniboni to assassinate Premier Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 16) was, of course, the excuse for much of this relentless clamping down upon anti-Fascist activities. News leaked through to the effect that Il Rivoluzione Liberale, noted anti-Fascist organ at Turin, had been suppressed; and at Rome a similar fate overtook the Avanti, Giustizia, Unita Cattolica and Voce Republicana, while other opposition papers such as Il Mondo and Il Risorgimento were "allowed to continue publication, although their entire issues were seized daily...
Last week chuckling Communists drained the Samovars of Moscow's lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...
...single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...
...height of the zero hour which separates the taking of "divisionals" from the announcement of the results the harassed senior wonders what has become of the relentless efficiency that has long characterized our college office...
...kind that stops the show; he merely fits into his place in the sun as unobtrusively as possible. He never seeks applause, and seldom is allowed a chance to receive it, so relentless is the pace of the program in the succession of 28 scenes...