Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vopos having failed, the Red program of East German rearmament was halted, and more than 2 billion East German marks (about $80 million) were transferred to a fund to "raise living standards" for workers. Ulbricht's relentless concentration on heavy industry, at the expense of production of things East Germans desperately need, was slowed down to allow production of more consumer goods. Some of the vast state stocks of food and clothing, a monument to Ulbricht's heavy-handed insistence on "state planning," were released to consumer retail channels. Many socialized plants and farms were returned to private...
...says Historian Morison, there was disagreement among U.S. commanders as to the best route to Tokyo. General MacArthur "firmly believed in the one road to Tokyo, his own," along the New Guinea-Philippines axis, with the Navy in a supporting role. The Navy was convinced that "relentless pressure by sea power could defeat Japan short of invasion." The Marianas, Admiral King felt, was the logical base from which to attack Japan's inner defenses. The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered that both roads be taken...
Even when properly considered, though, education is still no automatic cure; the most palpable of idiocies often enough issue from the best of scholars. But the spirit which stresses honest, relentless inquiry, which requires that convictions be arrived at only after study, that they be defended firmly enough to withstand the assaults of formulae men yet held lightly enough to give way when further investigation demands--in short, the spirit of a liberal education--is far superior to the haphazardness of uncritical belief. Such a spirit can only refine values and reconcile them to facts, whereas blind acceptance only leads...
...Communism will lose and be destroyed. That has always been the fate of evil dictators; and I am certain that, provided we are vigilant and relentless in this fight, we will prevail," Senator Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) told a packed Radcliffe Commencement audience in Sandors Theatre today...
...letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...