Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...
...looked as if the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia had finally given way to relentless Communist pressure. "Priests and Catholic laymen," said a government spokesman last week, "are now obligated to faithful and effective collaboration ... in the building of socialism...
...With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure by virtue of being almost tragic-down to their own level...
Thousands more knock on agency doors every year, driven by their own ambitions, by unscrupulous "modeling schools" which promise to turn them into cover girls in six easy lessons, or by relentless mothers. But disillusion awaits them...
London's wise, brilliant Economist has long been one of the Labor government's most relentless gadflies. It has mercilessly told the British people that they must work even harder, and give up some of Labor's expensive social achievements, in order to export and live. But last week, amid thicker & thicker criticism of Britain's Labor regime, the Economist, with wrath flashing and statistics flying, lined up with His Majesty's government...