Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh. The deft and relentless British satirist writes his second fine war novel around the exploits and disillusionments of Guy Crouchback, commando officer and "Christian gentleman" (TIME, July...
MOLOTOV: The world's most experienced diplomat; a tenacious, relentless negotiator. As an Old Bolshevik, he has considerable Kremlin prestige, but is not regarded as a contestant in the power stakes...
...last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author of A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, is something new. In the evolution of Evelyn Waugh, mercy appears to have arrived to season justice...
...Swift treatment prevented infection. At first, as many as 400 bites a day were being counted; at the end of 40 days, a man could bare his arm or leg without getting a single bite. Even mosquitoes and other pests had been wiped out by the helicopters' relentless spraying...
...When the checkered flag dropped, Sweikert was still in the lead, having averaged a respectable 128.2 m.p.h. This year, at the cost of two lives (Manuel Ayulo, 33, was killed in a practice-run crash), the Indianapolis 500 had proved little except that auto racing is a fascinating and relentless sport...