Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a great week for eulogies of all kinds. Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg sonorously praised the "relentless fidelity and constant success" of Texas' white-maned Tom Connally, his predecessor as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Republicans praised Democrats, Democrats praised Republicans. Jimmy Byrnes was praised and so was General Marshall...
...words were eloquent, but studded with cliches about unity of the proletariat, relentless class struggle, economic as well as political liberty. Nenni carefully balanced a tribute to British Socialism with a salute to the Russian Revolution. The audience greeted the first silently and the second with wild applause...
...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...
...CRIMSON's Blood Editor, not content with making a simple mistake in reporting the dates of the P.B.H. blood bank drive, has added complications to a relatively simple situation, by twice striking the wrong keys of his typewriter. Under relentless pressure from November hour examinations, he has fumbled twice in successive issues, and when last seen was creeping furtively toward the Lampoon Building...
Greying Mrs. Wilson sailed into her charges like a relentless sheepdog. She wanted no fancy writing, none of the "feminine things like the names of flowers, descriptions of dresses, and things that women talk about." And no invented quotes. They must get that through their heads. "Send me what people actually say, not what you think they should...