Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making a rush for that demobilization boat. . . . We, too, would like to get the hell out of the service and back to the homes which we love, but faced with nude "reality we believe that we have the intestinal fortitude to forget our personal desires and finish the hard, relentless job before us. The point of these two issues is that the Army should let go of Mama's apron strings, and get a little more determination to finish the war before thinking of the good old civilian days...
Harvey (by Mary Coyle Chase; produced by Brock Pemberton) is the funniest and most likable fantasy that Broadway has seen in years. Described in one sentence, this yarn about a balmy tosspot who knows an imaginary outsized rabbit named Harvey may suggest all the horrors of relentless whimsy. Distributed over three acts, Elwood P. Dowd and the hare of the dog that bit him become a delightful adventure in wackiness...
...sanctuary of his club, the professor is seized upon by his closest crony, the District Attorney (Raymond Massey). To entertain Wanley, who seems distracted, the D. A. regales him with the developments of the sensational new murder. Detail by detail the professor is forced to listen to a relentless but far-from-boring reconstruction, from footprints, spots of blood and bits of hair, of the crime he has committed...
Last week, arriving in the U.S. from Saipan, where he was chief of staff of the 2nd Marine Division, Colonel Shoup learned that his "indomitable fighting spirit" at Tarawa had won him another award: the Congressional Medal of Honor. His citation: "Colonel Shoup fearlessly exposed himself to the terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire . . . rallying his hesitant troops . . . gallantly led them across the fringing reefs ... to reinforce our hard-pressed, thinly held lines. Upon arrival at the shore he assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next...
Stauffenberg's bomb was no time bomb, but it dinned into Adolf Hitler's ears what time it was on history's relentless clock. The Junker felt that opportunism, the chief bond between them and Naziism now bound them to depose Hitler. For the time being Hitler restored the bond by a number of judicious hangings...