Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit by 100 rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor, who in turn appealed to the Lord Lieutenant in charge of the royal tour. Could the airmen leave their death-dealing rifles in barracks for just this once? Back came the relentless answer: "Custom cannot be changed. It is instruction to all services that arms must be carried on such parades...
...Arab regalia and often embroidered the truth. "Finding they wouldn't believe it," Lawrence himself once wrote a friend, "I told them lies." The ire of Aldington's critics was directed far less at the existence of sordid facts concerning their hero than at the brutal and relentless way Aldington sought to reduce Lawrence's reputation to nothingness. "It is as if someone were to describe Shakespeare's atrocious table manners at the Mermaid tavern, while omitting to mention that he also wrote plays," said Historian Harold Nicolson, who admitted to his own prejudice against Lawrence...
...poets, professors and politicians never tire of telling it in all its phases. Now an oldtime rewrite man has moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state of the nation's security on April 14, 1865 look appalling...
...genocide. Let us further suppose that after the war Herr Hindler disappears from Europe and turns up in a sleepy Connecticut town, where he teaches German history at a fashionable prep school and marries the daughter of a United States Supreme Court Justice. Finally, let us imagine that a relentless War Crimes detective traces Hindler to the town, identifies him by his passion for tinkering with clocks, and then waits around examining antiques for a few weeks while the fugitive kills a man and a dog, terrorizes his wife, and is at last grotesquely and ironically destroyed...
...achieved some fame as a ladylike beauty, also, gets her pretty teeth into a meaty acting part. She is a fine Georgie as she pads about her fourth-floor walkup, thin-lipped and pale, trying grimly to needle a weak-willed husband back to his self-respect. As the relentless, bullying director, Oscar-winning Actor Holden is as sharp as ever: a first-rate professional...