Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight, Lasky bruised his left hand, injured before the fight, so severely that it was useless to him in the 14 rounds that followed. But to the crowd, which had made Lasky a 3-to-1 favorite, it soon became apparent that the injury had little significance. Steady, savage, relentless, boxing with the enthusiasm that characterized his style ten years ago, the skill he has acquired in the course of a long and dismal career, Braddock was fighting the bout of a lifetime. The judges' decision, awarded to him at the finish, meant that Braddock had overnight become...
...climax to early local circus history came in 1843, when a promoter brought 15 buffaloes, "captured in the Rocky Mountains," to Worcester and parked them back of a hotel. Their escape concentrated the attention of Worcester residents on a relentless buffalo hunt for three days before normal activity could be resumed...
...dire presentiment which caused devout little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to send his young wife and chubby children away to Italy with the words "You will be safe where you are going" (TIME, July 23) was fulfilled last week by a grisly and relentless fate...
With the same precision and relentless efficiency that has marked her military expansion, Japan today is waging a world-wide war to capture markets formerly controlled by her chief economic and political rivals. Her program, government-directed, has been dubbed the "Ten Year Plan." Its astounding successes may be considered one of the major factors blocking economic recovery in the Western nations...
Everyone knows the rest: the swift, relentless progress of the disease, the evidence of a streptococcic infection, the edematous swelling of the larynx, the painful swallowing, the labored breathing and the agonizing death from suffocation...