Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike, was hunger-striking manfully himself last week in the Belgrade Hospital. Svetozar Pribitchevitch was not sick but has been locked up in Belgrade Hospital for months, the Government not daring to throw him into Belgrade jail. As Pribitchevitches grew weaker last week the Government seemed to grow more relentless, suppressed all news of the hunger strike, seemed content to let Svetozar Pribitchevitch die. Then suddenly King Alexander relented...
Even before he got back to Washington. President Hoover was publicly interrogated about his Harding speech by Senator Thomas James Walsh, relentless Teapot Dome inquisitor. With an eye cocked on politics, Senator Walsh said...
Last week the relentless forces of the Federal Government were closer than ever before to an inevitable show-down with Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. Out on appeal from a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), Capone was arrested for Federal income tax evasion, released on $50,000 bond...
...wiry man who has travelled the hard road from private soldier to Shah of Persia (TIME, July 22, 1929). He does not propose to be another Amanullah of Afghanistan, to be driven out for being "too modern," "too Christian" (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929). He is not a Christian. With relentless military stride His Moslem Majesty made for the Moslem priest...
...Economic history is relentless in teaching that the popular vice which needs correction is excessive spending, not excessive savings"?Alexander Dana Noyes, financial editor, New York Times...