Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't been bombed by any Germans yet, but are waging relentless warfare against Air Raid Wardens, who come round at all hours of the night banging on the door and shouting that they can see a crack of light through one of our windows. The dog has gallantly bitten two of them, but they have retaliated by reporting him to the police. We are thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen...
...Franklin Roosevelt is a changeable, charming, warmhearted, gullible, formidable man. ". . . When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...
...persecution against the Catholic Church is as relentless and vicious as any persecution in history. But the Marxist liberals have sold Mexico to the world as a great democracy. Has it not a Constitution and dont the people vote? Democracies do not persecute religion or the Church Therefore, everything must be fine in Mexico for it's a democracy-like Russia...
...Wendell Willkie, Dave Lilienthal, relentless opponent of public utilities, but no Indiana farmer (he was born in Illinois, educated at Indiana's De Pauw University), had words of praise now that the war was over. He described Willkie as one of the outstanding proponents of private enterprise, "who has done a real job of selling electricity at low rates...
Unleashing a timely batting attack, Floyd Stahl's relentless varsity nine mopped up Soldiers Field yesterday with a badly rattled Princeton Tiger, as they collected their fifth straight triumph to the tune of 13 to 2, behind Tom Healey and Charlie Brackett...