Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India the heat was creeping north from Cape Comorin, the heat which would grow to a relentless blaze scorching the country until the June monsoon. Much-traveled General Sir Archibald Wavell, back in New Delhi to resume his Indian command (see p. 19), waited in the heat for London to make up its mind. A U.S. air mission had arrived, the first tangible sign that U.S. fighters might join in India's defense. They too waited for London's words. And in New Delhi the Viceroy, who rules India for Britain, also waited...
...relentless: his was the patience, the endurance, the determination to wipe out the last Philippine defender, though it meant expenditure of a major force on the bloody, outnumbered remnants of the islands' defensive garrison. His heavy artillery, from cleverly concealed positions across Manila Bay, bombarded three of the four forts guarding the bay. His bombers braved uncannily accurate ack-ack fire to hound Bataan positions night & day. His infantry closed in, hoping for the kill...
LONDON--The Soviet High Command said tonight that the German Army in Russia suffered "enormous losses in equipment and manpower" as the Red Army continued its relentless offensive on several sectors of the wintry front...
...Japanese front was moving relentlessly south To Hein ter Poorten, as to most of the Dutch, hints that the U.S. and Britain might not oppose this relentless movement with equally relentless defense were alarming and maddening...
Track experts consider MacMitchell the most promising runner ever developed in the U.S. Having an extraordinarily low pulse of 38 (72 is normal), relentless perseverance, perfect mental attitude and Boy-Scout living habits, he has run within two seconds of every world's record for half a dozen distances, from 440 yards to 1,500 meters. At a mile, he has already tied Glenn Cunningham's recognized indoor world's record...