Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will inscribe an icy circle around his moon or draw a thick cloud over his sunset. Life for him does not strike with fury or with the suddenness of lightning. There is no swift piercing of the heart by savage arrow. Rather it is a slow process, cumulative, ponderous, relentless...
Besides being a "relentless careerist," Mrs. Moody was one of those rare persons in the sports world who never permitted the newspapers to make a fool...
Japan's new strategy of trying to nip off Shanghai and the tip of the Shanghai Peninsula by means of pincer armies closing in from North and South (TIME, Nov. 15), succeeded last week in relentless, smashing style. Long-eared Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Iwane Matsui helped his infantry pincers close by turning loose Japan's most potent naval and land artillery, hurled great projectiles screaming clear over the International Settlement to score hits on Chinese positions at as much as 7,500 yards (about four miles...
From then on a confirmed and even relentless careerist. Tennist Wills found the University of California an irrelevant interlude until she heard about Phi Beta Kappa. Then she ascertained "what average was necessary" and for three years did just enough work, in between tournaments, to win her key. "Pride," reflects Autobiographer Wills, ". . . gave way to a much colder thing. Ambition." Other Wills revelations...
...last week) : Up Seattle's Queen Anne Hill and into a lavatory in Kinnear Park playground marches Relentless Regan. On the backs of envelopes he pencils two notes: "I can't stand the gaff." "I am crazy." Then Relentless Regan, within earshot of a group of laughing children, pumps a bullet into his brain...